Where did you get that from?
“the Catholic church’s official teaching is that anyone not a Catholic will also be going to hell”
“Where did you get that from?”
Probably from the same place that says if you are not “born again” you are going to hell.
the Catholic church’s official teaching is that anyone not a Catholic will also be going to hell
Where did you get that from?
Uhh..probably from the last 1500 years of catholic church history??? Just a guess, of course.
Green's only desire was to create that division. I am pointing out that Catholics should not feel as victims in this story as Protestants can be just as offended by the official teachings of the Catholic church. There are differences, if there weren't we would all belong to the exact same church.
" Extraordinary Magisterium ---EX CATHEDRA There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved. (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.) With Faith urging us we are forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this Church outside of which there is no salvation nor remission of sin
Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human creature that they by absolute necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff. (Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302) The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church. (Council of Florence--Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.)" __________________