The 16-page document was prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a doctrinal watchdog that Pope Benedict used to head... The document adds that Protestant denominations — called Christian Communities born out of the Reformation — are not true churches, but ecclesial communities...The Vatican issued a document Tuesday restating its belief that the Catholic Church is the only true church of Jesus Christ.
Same old, same old. The counter Reformation never ended.
Semper Reformanda!
As God wills it.
YUP.
Soooooooo true.
However, bureaucracies of political power mongers
are artists at word crafting; word games; word manipulations
straddling all sides of all fences as it suits them.
The Vatican is a prime example of such.
Catholics think they save themselves, hence, no salvation outside the Roman Catholic church, which is not Christ, but each other. And after all, they pray to each other, and anyone and everyone but Christ, contending that the deceased are “in heaven”, when maybe they are and maybe they aren’t, no one knows. Then there’s that pesky purgatory where their deceased may or may not be and can’t help themselves out of, let alone anyone else. Theologica Absurdica