"All Saints Day" for non-Catholics?

[Evangel]

Just got back from Mass.

Dear Father used his homily to talk about non-Catholic “saints” and nary a peep about Catholic ones.

 

[Tonks40]

Huh???

What was the gist of his homily?

 

[DJgang]

Are Catholics the only one’s who have saints?

 

[St_Benedict]

Well, the Church acknowledges clearly that Christ is present in other Church’s and ecclesial communities through the ‘saintliness’ of their members, and indeed those of other religions, whithout any diluting that the Catholic Church has the fullness of truth.

All Saints

818 “However, one cannot charge with the sin of the separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from such separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers. . . . All who have been justified by faith in Baptism are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as brothers in the Lord by the children of the Catholic Church.”

scborromeo.org/ccc/para/818.htm

843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as “a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life.”

scborromeo.org/ccc/para/843.htm