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To: CynicalBear

If one doesn’t believe in the dogmatic teachings of the Catholic Church, then reasonably they have fallen away from it. That doesn’t mean they have lost the gift of salvation, given once and for all by Jesus Christ. Instead, it is a teaching binding upon Catholics.

The Church doesn’t definitively teach the Apostles surrounded Mary at her earthly death. There is a vision of this by St. Anne Catherine Emmerich. Hers is a private revelation, which is defined as that there is nothing in them contrary faith or good morals, and that they may be read without danger or even with profit; no obligation is thereby imposed on the faithful to believe them. Further, Benedict XIV says: “It is not obligatory nor even possible to give them the assent of Catholic faith, but only of human faith, in conformity with the dictates of prudence, which presents them to us as probable and worthy of pius belief)” (De canon., III, liii, xxii, II).

While a Catholic is free to believe the Apostles surrounded Mary at her death, it is not required. In my personal opinion only, I just don’t know, and take no stand one way or the other.


186 posted on 03/29/2015 9:27:24 AM PDT by SpirituTuo
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To: SpirituTuo
>>That doesn’t mean they have lost the gift of salvation, given once and for all by Jesus Christ.<<

So you believe once saved always saved?

188 posted on 03/30/2015 6:32:21 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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