Few organizations are as present in our cities and towns as churches. Although each municipality has dozens of fraternal organizations, shops and information centers, it is quite common to look across a cityscape and see the spiers of a steeple peeking above the surroundings. However, the use of the word “church” to describe these buildings does not correspond to its original meaning, since the word indicates a body of people united for a specific theological purpose. Different churches see different ways to accomplish this goal. Although the Church often seems antiquated in modern times, I will analyze its importance in the modern world. Finally, I will identify the place of the Church in the modern world. It is important to recognize that I will be making this argument and analysis from a Catholic perspective, and that some vocabulary and responses will be decidedly Catholic. In this article I will analyze the place of the Church in theological discussion and in the world. I will argue that the Church is a body of people and that it has a specific purpose, a means to that goal, a specific mission and place in the modern world. The modern world too often sees the Church as a singular building, where worship services are held and specific business is taken care of. However, this is not the case, and the Church is best described as a collection of peoples, with the origin of the word coming from the Greek word for “assembly.” In this essay I will use capital letters to identify between church: a building and church, a group of people. Even when one understands that the Church is a body of people, it is still easy to imagine the clergy, or members of the bureaucracy of that body only as... the medium of paper... mercy is made accessible because of the special existence of Church both in natural and supernatural reality. This is why I conclude that the Church is a body of peoples united as the Mystical Body of Christ, and exists in the world and simultaneously exists in a supernatural reality, so that it converts all peoples and leads them to the blessed Vision through the grace and mercy of God. Works Cited Boylan, Eugene. This tremendous lover. Notre Dame, IN: Christian Classics, 1947.Catholic Church. Unitatis Redintegratio [Decree on Ecumenism]. Vatican City: Vatican Prints, 1964.Francis. America. By Antonio Spadaro. September 30, 2013. http://americamagazine.org/pope-interview.Thomas. Summa Theologiae. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. New York: Benziger Bros., 1947. http://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/index.html.Weaver, Natalie Kertes.