You can’t deny it or won’t deny it so you avoid the discussion. Face it catholicism is in error on this. I know that’s hard to accept. It’s why the catholic has to engage in verbal gymnastics on these issues.
I have better things to do. I'm going out to prune my goji plants. And if any of the dang kudzu has made its appearance over the backyard fence: war to the death! Uukhai! :o)
This pope’s own homilies show he does not know what salvation is or how it happens. His comments regarding being baptized and that puts one in the church where they are then a Christian in a community tells us what the catholic apologists at FR keep repeating without comprehension. Catholics believe they have salvation through fealty to a sacramental trail. The Vatican tells them that the Catholic Church is the sheepfold and only by being catholic are they going to eventually obtain Heaven. Of course that means purgatory at the end of the average catholic life, and then eventually heaven. And that is anathema to what JESUS and the APOSTLES taught and the Bible illustrates with the day of Pentecost and the house of Cornelius ...