The Catholic church is pretty adamant that those who are not baptized go to hell and that baptism is necessary for salvation.
The only reason I think they waffle on the issue of whether stillborn babies or infants go to heaven is to avoid conflict.
They can’t say they do, they can’t say they don’t, so they’re stuck and the only really honest answer is *We don’t know* and people don’t want to hear that.
MM-”’The Catholic church is pretty adamant that those who are not baptized go to hell””
This is a lie.
The Church even teaches that it’s even possible for non- Christians to go to heaven by following the law of love written on their hearts . God PINES for all of us to follow this law of love.The Spirit of Christ Blows where He wills and the Church recognizes this
From Dominus Iesus
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html
Excerpts...
For those who are not formally and visibly members of the Church, “salvation in Christ is accessible by virtue of a grace which, while having a mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally part of the Church, but enlightens them in a way which is accommodated to their spiritual and material situation. This grace comes from Christ; it is the result of his sacrifice and is communicated by the Holy Spirit”;81 it has a relationship with the Church, which “according to the plan of the Father, has her origin in the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit”.
God, who desires to call all peoples to himself in Christ and to communicate to them the fullness of his revelation and love, “does not fail to make himself present in many ways, not only to individuals, but also to entire peoples through their spiritual riches, of which their religions are the main and essential expression even when they contain ‘gaps, insufficiencies and errors’