[piusv]

I am sure that there are many great, holy mystics among Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and even pagans, and that many in those religions have experienced baptism of desire, and thus have the theological virtues and sanctifying grace, and will enter into the Beatific Vision when they die. The Catholic Church has always taught this. The claim that only those who are baptized with water in the Catholic Church and are registered members of a Catholic parish can be saved has been explicitly condemned as a heresy.

"Many"? You are "sure"? Where does the Catholic Church teach that Baptism of Desire is something that happens often and where does the Catholic Church teach that we can be sure and hope that there are many people ....in non-Catholic religions.... that will be saved by it? Father, with all due respect, you have been drinking the Vatican II Kool-Aid for too long.

[Arthur McGowan]

There are about six billion non-Catholics in the world. If 1% of them have received Baptism of desire, how many is that?

If you claim that that isn’t “many,” then how about inviting them all to dinner some evening soon?