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To: HangnJudge

The point is already put to rest, infallibly. It’s infallible dogma that “outside the Church, there is no salvation”. But since the earliest times, no one (save for some fringe people who didn’t speak for the Magisterium) took that to mean that “one needs to be a visible, explicit, participating member of a Catholic parish, or else one will go to hell”!

Look up the Catholic teachings about “baptism of desire” and “baptism of blood”, to start; these are age-old teachings (not necessarily with those official titles, depending on the source) which show that the Church has never declared that “all non-Catholics are going to hell”.

Put in its clearest sense, the teaching says, “Anyone who is saved, is saved in and through Christ’s Catholic Church... whether they’re aware of that fact, or not... and whether they agree with that fact, or not.”


37 posted on 05/22/2015 10:03:47 AM PDT by paladinan (Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
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To: paladinan
This seems confusing to me, I must ponder on it
Thank You for the attempt at clarification
45 posted on 05/22/2015 10:10:01 AM PDT by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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To: paladinan
Look up the Catholic teachings ...


83 posted on 05/22/2015 12:36:36 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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