In 1992, the Holy See recognised that the Emmanuel Community acts for the common good of the whole Catholic Church. As a Public Association of the Faithful, it brings together priests, consecrated men and women, families and single people who testify to the ecclesiology of communion encouraged by the Second Vatican Council. In 2017, this call to live the complementarity of the states of life for the new evangelisation led the Congregation for the Clergy to erect the Clerical Association of the Emmanuel Community (gathering priests and deacons). It is indissolubly linked to the Association of Faithful.
Today, the community is present in 60 countries. It reaches several hundred thousand people each year through its apostolic activities. It has :
> 11,500 members
> 275 priests and about 100 seminarians
> 225 men and women consecrated in celibacy
> 10 bishops are from the Community