Corporeal and Spiritual Works of Mercy proceed from Salvation. Their absence is proof that Salvation too is absent.
Not necessarily because it depends on who's doing the judging and what standard they are using. And just who decides what those are?
Does the Catholic church have a laundry list of those as well for people to check off to make sure they're good?
What about someone like Lot? Peter called him *righteous*. Hardly a term I'd apply to him. And the Pharisees kept the Law to a *T* and Jesus called them whitewashed tombs.
Does it make Catholics feel better to be able to pigeon hole people?
What the biggest indicator of a new heart and eternal life is a changed life. Not just a bunch of works that someone can add and fool themselves into thinking they're saved because they're doing them.