tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post2795060969652099903..comments2024-01-16T19:31:28.762-05:00Comments on Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit: Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J. On Faith and On The BibleJoseph Frommhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16759274486679530625noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post-89726520909925246892012-11-01T23:36:36.776-04:002012-11-01T23:36:36.776-04:00From catholic Catechism 846, 847, 848 and 865:
&q...From catholic Catechism 846, 847, 848 and 865:<br /><br />"Outside the Church there is no salvation" <br /><br />846 <br />"How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body: <br /><br />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.<br /><br />847 <br />"This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: <br /><br />"Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation."<br /><br />848 <br />"Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men."<br /><br />865<br />"865 The Church is ultimately one, holy, catholic, and apostolic in her deepest and ultimate identity, because it is in her that "the Kingdom of heaven," the "Reign of God,"380 already exists and will be fulfilled at the end of time. The kingdom has come in the person of Christ and grows mysteriously in the hearts of those incorporated into him, until its full eschatological manifestation. Then all those he has redeemed and made "holy and blameless before him in love,"381 will be gathered together as the one People of God, the "Bride of the Lamb,"382 "the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God."383 For "the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post-1761522144808993752009-10-01T08:32:10.413-04:002009-10-01T08:32:10.413-04:00What is the official Catholic teaching on non cath...What is the official Catholic teaching on non catholics and salvation? Going by this and other Saint's writings it seems to be that only Catholics will be saved?mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06962374096401238994noreply@blogger.com