I’m a devout Catholic, and I don’t believe good people will go to hell just because they haven’t found Jesus. In fact, given the Church’s outreach to other religions, I don’t believe the Church feels that way either.
*Good* is a relative term.
Compared to God, none is good. God's standard is perfection. The wages of sin is death and all it takes is one.
But the good news is that God offers salvation freely to those who place their trust in Jesus and His atonement, His finished work on the cross. God takes our faith in that and forgives our sins and credits Jesus' righteousness to our account and does not hold our sins against us.
THAT is salvation, a free gift, outside of any church, denomination, or system of works.
John 1:9-13 9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
The RIGHT to become the children of God, simply by faith.
You are losses if that is what you believe.
What part of, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. NO one comes to the Father accept through ME”.
You are saved through Christ, not the Catholic Church.
Without Christ, there is NO Salvation!
If you do NOT FIND CHRIST YOU HAVE NOT FOUND SALVATION!
It’s important to note that the (Catholic) Church does teach those who have never heard of Christ but earnestly seek to imitate Him by following the Law inscribed in every man’s heart can be saved, but if they are saved it is still only through Christ.
IOW, the Church teaches it is only through Christ that a man is saved. Thus it’s a strawman argument to say the Church teaches a man can be saved without Christ (or through his good works alone). The Church doesn’t teach that.
WOW! But not surprised at that statement!