[bdeaner]

The biggest issue is “What do you mean by the Church?”

That's precisely the issue, yes, and this was clarified by Vatican II.

And not all Roman Catholic theologians agree with the article, some on catholic.com are a lot more limited on who outside the Roman Catholic Church can be saved.

Well, frankly, there are a lot of "Catholic" theologians out there who are really just heretics and Catholic-in-Name-Only (CINOs). They have to answer to Vatican II whether they like it or not.

[redgolum]

Some of them are bishops.

When I lived in Lincoln, NE, the local bishop did not go as far in implying that adult, non Catholics, have a shot at salvation. Since they have reached the age of being able to decide for themselves and are aware of the Catholic Church, they have few reasons to be outside of it.

Go back to the early 1900’s and it is even more stark.

Either Vatican II changed something (which it claims not to) or the earlier times focused more on the “No” than the “maybe”.