Resumen:
In the past fifty years, the reciprocal interiority of the universal Church and particular churches has been very frequently emphasized. An exact equivalence between one and the others has been proposed. Attempts to point out the temporal or ontological priority of the universal Church have not been well understood. This article offers some arguments that affirm the precedence of the universal Church (or, rather, of the Catholic Church), while at the same time intends to extirpate misgivings about the so-called "universalism."