Pope Francis' Renewed Vision of the Church

Pope Francis is determined to change the deformed and sick Church with a radical vision. As against the institutional, clergy-centered, self-referential and self-glorifying Church, Francis  envisions the Church to be an authentic People of God who are  correlative in attitude, collaborative in action, collegial in spirit, radiating the light of Christ, going to the existential peripheries and  becoming an ‘evangelizing Church’.  This article first attempts at describing the new vision of the Church, as projected by Pope Francis through signs and symbols and words and actions and as expounded in his Evangelii Gaudium.