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Sure it does....

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
SECOND EDITION

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a9p3.htm

846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336


742 posted on 04/22/2010 10:01:03 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Well done—again. Congrats.


777 posted on 04/23/2010 1:07:00 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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