[AnAmericanMother]

So Catholics believe non-Catholics can be saved without the sacraments????

Not without Baptism -- but there's Baptism of Blood and even Baptism of Desire as well as the ordinary Baptism by water and the Holy Ghost.

So there is always the possibility of salvation. God has the power to reach out and save anyone, anywhere, as long as they truly desire it.

But we believe the safest and surest way is with the benefit of all the Sacraments of the Church -- especially that of Reconciliation (Confession).

[John Leland 1789]

“Not without Baptism — but there’s Baptism of Blood and even Baptism of Desire as well as the ordinary Baptism by water and the Holy Ghost.

“So there is always the possibility of salvation. God has the power to reach out and save anyone, anywhere, as long as they truly desire it.”

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Actually, you make Catholicism sound so virtually unnecessary in the final analysis.