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To: annie laurie
The Catechism explicitly holds out the possibility and hope that the unbaptized can be saved. This contradicts the frequently made charge that only people who go to the Catholic Church can be saved.

And in general, the way this section points out that the Catechism is an organic unity should serve as a warning that wrenching a line or two out of context will not provide one with sound arguments.

Happy Sunday, to those who celebrate the Lord's Resurrection on this day of the week. Well, and happy Sunday to those who don't!

5,887 posted on 06/15/2008 4:09:44 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg; annie; Laurie
This contradicts the frequently made charge that only people who go to the Catholic Church can be saved.

"frequently made charge"? I haven't seen it once let alone "frequently". Methinks thou art guilty of exercising poetic license.

On the other hand you probably have seen the frequently made charge that the Catholic Church insists that salvation is available only to those "...subject to the Roman Pontiff."

And...the Catholic Church uses poetic license to explain how it doesn't really mean what it says.

"We declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff." (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302).


5,924 posted on 06/15/2008 1:56:26 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know no thing.)
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