“What about Catholics who have left the Faith? Are they okay, or are they lost?”
Anyone who knowingly and deliberately rejects the Church will be lost. So it would be the height of presumption to say that someone who has left the Faith “is okay.” Now, it may well be that a person who left the Faith may have had such a distorted notion of what the Church truly is and what she teaches that there may not be culpability. Again, we don’t know. However, it may well be that they are culpable. And no amount of “church” attendance or prayer apart from the Church Jesus established, the Catholic Church, will get them to heaven if that is the case. One might even “deliver [one’s] body to be burned” (I Cor. 13:3), but it will “profit nothing” apart from union with Christ and his Church because it is only the divine life and charity of Christ in us that can save us. So we must take extremely serious anyone who has left the faith or anyone who is not in union with the Church because objectively speaking, (barring invincible ignorance, etc.) souls are on the line!
Yes, this carries all the authority of Islam saying all infidels are condemned.
They believe it. It is as false as the claims of rome.
And no amount of “church” attendance or prayer apart from the Church Jesus established, the Catholic Church, will get them to heaven if that is the case.
No amount of any church attendance or prayer will every get a soul to heaven.
Christ alone saves, as Scripture says clearly. Not a church, or prayer, or beads, or candles or idols.
Nor did Christ establish the roman church.
Such silliness that ignores Scripture and exalts itself!
NO SALE!
I choose Christ and Him alone.
PS - shouldn't you be trying to clean up your largely homosexual clergy??