[CynicalBear]

>>I would like to stop active participation in this thread, as it circled back to the issue of once-saved-always-saved <<

Not unless you bring it back there. My post was showing that your freind, according to the RCC, will not be saved unless he becomes a member of the Catholic Church.

[annalex]

your freind, according to the RCC, will not be saved unless he becomes a member of the Catholic Church.

Not entirely correct. He may not have an opportunity to accomplish a formal conversion, but Christ will give him an opportunity to convert in his heart as he dies. That is the meaning of impossibility of salvation outside the Church.