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To: bdeaner
Too bad that is not what the article concluded:

The Catholic Church is "the single and exclusive channel by which the truth and grace of Christ enter our world of space and time" (Karl Adam, The Spirit of Catholicism, 179). Those who do not know the Church, even those who fight against it, can receive these gifts if they honestly seek God and his truth. But, Adam says, "though it be not the Catholic Church itself that hands them the bread of truth and grace, yet it is Catholic bread that they eat." And when they eat of it, "without knowing it or willing it" they are "incorporated in the supernatural substance of the Church."

Highlighted text is quite relevant. Thankfully no one comes to God except through Christ. Not the pope, not a church. Christ. That's biblical, the dogma (which is the word the author used) highlighted above is not.

9 posted on 06/27/2009 11:04:39 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PugetSoundSoldier
No one comes to God except through Christ, absolutely -- and, if you read St. Paul, the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ on earth. So, no one comes to Christ except through the Body of which He is the Head -- the Church.

Now you took the quote out of context, possibly because you jumped ahead to the "conclusion," because the point of the article is that ALL Christians are part of the Catholic Church; however, if not a practicing Catholic, not in full communion. Christ and the Scriptures are clear: He wants us in FULL commmunion, as a unity, not fragmented.
10 posted on 06/27/2009 11:18:04 PM PDT by bdeaner (The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
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