You say we are not saved by faith alone.....
Yet...We see this clearly in Saint Paul’s question to the Corinthians:
....”What have you that you did not receive?” (1 Cor 4:7)
This was at the very heart of Paul’s debate with the Pharisees: ....the issue of whether salvation is attained by faith or by the works of the law.... Paul ‘rejects’ the attitude of those who would consider themselves justified before God on the basis of their own works. ...Such people, even when they obey the commandments and do good works, are centred on themselves; they fail to realize that goodness comes from God..... Those who live this way, who want to be the source of their own righteousness, find that the latter is soon depleted and that they are unable even to keep the law..... They become closed in on themselves and isolated from the Lord and from others;... their lives become futile and their works barren, like a tree far from water....
Salvation by faith means recognizing the primacy of God’s gift. As Saint Paul puts it: “By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God” (Eph 2:8).
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
LUMEN FIDEI
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF FRANCIS
TO THE BISHOPS PRIESTS AND DEACONS CONSECRATED PERSONS AND THE LAY FAITHFUL
ON FAITH
The Church does not teach that works of any law play any role in salvation either.