Editing Lumen gentium (section)

===Traditionalist reaction===
Certain [[Traditionalist Catholic]] groups, particularly [[Sedevacantism|Sedevacantists]], consider {{Lang|la|Lumen gentium}} to be the demarcation of when the Roman Church fell into heresy,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ourladyswarriors.org/teach/lumegent.htm |title=Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) |website=ourladyswarriors.org |access-date=2024-12-24}}</ref> pointing to the use of "[["Subsistit in" in Lumen Gentium|subsistit in]]" rather than "est" as an abdication of the Church's historic (and to them compulsory) identification of itself alone as God's church.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} In an interview with the {{lang|de|[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]}}, Cardinal [[Pope Benedict XVI|Joseph Ratzinger]] responded to this criticism:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/answers-to-main-objections-against-dominus-iesus-10119 |title=Answers to Main Objections against Dominus Jesus |access-date=2024-12-24}}</ref>

{{Quote|The concept expressed by 'is' (to be) is far broader than that expressed by 'to subsist'. 'To subsist' is a very precise way of being, that is, to be as a subject, which exists in itself. Thus the Council Fathers meant to say that the being of the Church as such is a broader entity than the Roman Catholic Church, but within the latter it acquires, in an incomparable way, the character of a true and proper subject.}}