And yet whenever I have asked a Catholic the question “If you died tonight, do you know if you’d go to Heaven?” the answer is always along the lines of “I hope so.” So no matter how you play your word dance, my experience with Catholic is that they don’t have assurance of salvation. My experience is that Catholics are on a “works-based” idea of salvation. Very sad, in my opinion.
If a person knows they are saved, then they know they are saved from the punishment for sin, which is death. The gift of being saved or salvation is eternal life with God (in Heaven).
So if you were going to die tonight — yet you yelled at your husband/wife/children — do you know if you’d go to Heaven?
I doubt it. You would spend some time in Purgatory for those sins. But that topic will come up later.
As will what you mentioned faith and works.