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To: metmom
Pope Eugene IV, (1388-1447 CE) wrote a Papal bull in 1441 CE titled Cantate Domino. One paragraph reads: “It [the Church] firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart ‘into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels’ [Matt. 25:41], unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” 4

You know the church "that never changes?" Now they believe Muslims and jews and EVEN Protestants can be saved..

1,850 posted on 05/04/2010 1:52:29 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
They believed that before 1400.

Some people act like an entity which has been around for about 2k years is going to be completely transparent and accessible to superficial study. It would be nice to see some real scholarship among our accusers, or just some sort of common or garden variety prudence.

1,855 posted on 05/04/2010 2:13:16 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Deus autem noster in caelo;* omnia quaecumque voluit fecit. Alleluia)
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