How? If she accepted Jesus, she's saved. If not, she's damned. Anything else she may have done doesn't matter. At least, that's how I understand things work from the explanations I've heard.
If any of you Christians can help me understand where I've gotten things wrong, please feel free, because what I've written there sure doesn't make any sense to me.
hopefully she asked Jesus to save her before she died. maybe her "partner" or another family member told her of Christ, we just don't know...
99 and 94/100ths are Catholic. She accepted Jesus, she died heroically in defense of His commandments, I think it's pretty clear she's in heavenly glory as we speak, and St. Gianna Molla is giving her a great big hug.
That’s not my belief as a Catholic. We believe that when people have to have faith in Jesus with good works to be saved. For example, one couldn’t accept Jesus and go on a murderous rampage and still be saved. Also, while we believe the Church and a life in Christ is the ultimate path to salvation, we realize some people may never have the opportunity to know Christ or Christianity but were still good people. We believe they have a chance to go to Heaven as well.
I take this as an outward sign of God’s grace. But I don’t think this is an appropriate time to argue about Calvinist notions of superlapsarianism or irresistable grace.
She is a Catholic, and the Catholic Church clearly declared at the Council of Trent that no one can be saved without divine grace, through the saving office of Christ.
we are saved by Christ, but at the judgement seat, there will be rich rewards for believers for deeds found worthy (done in His name for selfless purposes)