What Jorge Bergolio has known as a young religious and priest is a Church renewed by the Second Vatican Council. For him, Vatican II is something natural, which he has integrated. Therefore, he does not spend all of his time discussing it, he does and speaks Vatican II. His action is performative language. Hence, true to the ecclesiology of Lumen Gentium, he considers the Church, the wandering people of God, as a subject of history. He also makes of the members of the Church, bishops (alone or together within Episcopal Conferences), pastors or lay faithful, subjects of action and initiative in the Church. He recognizes them as subjects of action and authorizes their initiative. This article shows, from a reading of the apostolic exhortations Evangelii gaudium and Amoris laetitia, how Francis constitutes the local Churches and their members as subjects of action and initiative, thus implementing, in a way consistent with the needs of the present time, the ecclesiology of Vatican II.