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To: stanne
Catholics do not wish ill on anyone, and they do not wish fervently that another religion goes to hell. I cannot speak for other religions in this regard. You can SAY anything about the Church. It doesn’t make it true.

Where did I say they wish ill will or fervently THAT another religion goes to hell? Do you really need to make things up out of the whole cloth to defend your faith?

I said, quite simply, that it is the Catholic position that Protestants WILL go to hell, and that Catholics accept that - just as Protestants accept it about Catholics. And then i said "But oh no, that's not wishing evil in each other, that's preaching Jesus' doctrine of love to those choosing hell in error."

In other words, letting yourself believe eternal hell about another Christian - even denying their Christianity itself - makes a mockery of what Christ taught.

In.My.Humble.Opinion.

26 posted on 06/28/2015 8:41:06 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

From the catechism

818 “However, one cannot charge with the sin of the separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from such separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers . . . . All who have been justified by faith in Baptism are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as brothers in the Lord by the children of the Catholic Church.”272

819 “Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth”273 are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: “the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.”274 Christ’s Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church. All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him,275 and are in themselves calls to “Catholic unity.”276

Toward unity

820 “Christ bestowed unity on his Church from the beginning. This unity, we believe, subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end of time.”277 Christ always gives his Church the gift of unity, but the Church must always pray and work to maintain, reinforce, and perfect the unity that Christ wills for her. This is why Jesus himself prayed at the hour of his Passion, and does not cease praying to his Father, for the unity of his disciples: “That they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, . . . so that the world may know that you have sent me.”278 The desire to recover the unity of all Christians is a gift of Christ and a call of the Holy Spirit.279


28 posted on 06/28/2015 8:54:11 PM PDT by stanne
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