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To: armydoc
re: I certainly isn't ambiguous regarding the issue at hand; it unambiguously states that EENS does not mean what you claim.

A fallible ambigously article from an encyclopedia, written by one man, you make your own dogma, because that is what you want to hear.

A clear precise dogma, you deny, because it is not what you want to hear. "nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ",

It's that simple!

“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only those who abide in it do the Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia productive of eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”

280 posted on 08/15/2010 2:30:14 PM PDT by verdugo
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To: verdugo

Does that make B16 and JPII heretics, then?


283 posted on 08/15/2010 4:45:08 PM PDT by armydoc
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