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To: piusv
"Outside the Catholic Church there is No Salvation"

Scripture reveals to us that "[God] desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."

So God must provide a means of salvation for people who are ignorant of Christ and His Church, through no fault of their own.

At the same time, their salvation must come about through Christ's atoning death and resurrection, the graces of which are mediated through His Church, which is His Body.

How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? Reformulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body
Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.
(CCC 846).
What "No Salvation Outside the Church" Means
60 posted on 05/03/2015 5:17:40 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
At the same time, their salvation must come about through Christ's atoning death and resurrection,

That part's bible...

the graces of which are mediated through His Church, which is His Body.

That part's a fable invented by the Catholic religion which calls itself that church that graces must be mediated thru...

62 posted on 05/03/2015 6:05:47 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; piusv

I see you quoted the second edition of JP II’ catechism. Do you know why the first edition was pulled so soon after it’s release?

It’s because it contained outright heresy.


66 posted on 05/03/2015 9:10:57 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; stanne; ebb tide

Nothing either of you two have stated or posted has proven that the post Vatican II church does not teach false ecumenism (despite the lip service given to EENS) ....the false ecumenism brought to us by Vatican II.


69 posted on 05/03/2015 3:27:06 PM PDT by piusv
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