The Structure of the Corpus
Four concentric layers, from the universal floor of confession to the real wounds of division; a fifth layer added in our time to render the dialogues the Body has conducted with itself.
The Dogmatic Core
What the Undivided Church confesses
The Vincentian floor — what has been believed everywhere, always, and by all. Eight loci, received without serious dissent across East and West.
The Catholic Consensus
What the vast majority of the Body receives
Eighteen doctrines confessed across the magisterial traditions with only peripheral dissent. The ground on which the Body stands together even where it does not yet speak in one voice.
Legitimate Diversity
Differences that are compatible with confession
Seventeen matters where traditions differ in emphasis, register, or practice without contradictory truth-claims. The Body's breathing room.
The Real Faultlines
Genuinely incompatible claims
Twelve wounds. Each requires revision by at least one side for visible reunion. Each side's strongest case is presented; what would have to change is named.
The Living Convergence
The dialogues the Body has conducted with itself
The recent bilateral and multilateral ecumenical dialogues rendered as dialogue-biographies — with their rejectors, collapses, and bracketed questions named alongside their agreements. The corpus curates sourced witnesses; it does not issue fidelity verdicts.