[AnotherUnixGeek]

“Do Catholics believe that evangelicals (who are surely as earnest in their faith in Christ’s salvation as any other denomination) will go to heaven without switching to Catholicism?”

This is possible.

Interesting - I didn't know this, and I'm glad to hear it. Thanks for clearing this up for me.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

ANOTHERUNIXGEEK: “Do Catholics believe that evangelicals (who are surely as earnest in their faith in Christ’s salvation as any other denomination) will go to heaven without switching to Catholicism?”

VLADIMIR998: This is possible.

Ask him how this is possible - for a Protestant to be saved who does not eventually believe the RCC is the one true church.

Because many RCs tend to say whatever is expedient to the conversation at hand, even going so far as to contradict their own catechism, if that is what it takes to win the point. And the RCC catechism teaches that outside the church (of Rome) there is no salvation.

RC apologists usually get around this detail by further explaining that any Protestant who really wants to be saved will spend some time in purgatory where he will change his mind about his Evangelical faith and acknowledge the papacy as the "one true church" and thus he can be saved.

Therefore the correct question to ask a Roman Catholic is "can an Evangelical Protestant go to heaven if he never accepts the papacy and its church in Rome as the one true church?"