Can non-catholics be saved and get to heaven?

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I’m worried about them because they can fall and get to hell.
 
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padre pio spoke about the king of england (the king from the kings speech’s dad) being saved, he wouldn’t have been catholic.
 
God wills all to be saved. Pray for catholics too as we also may fall and get to hell.

Blessings.
 
Yes, you can be saved if your interior heart is one of grace. The fruits of being saved can be identical but a Catholic is more aware of the fruits of faith, hope, and charity, whereas a Protestant is working on faith alone. A repentant heart is a charitable heart thus it’s definitely possible to get to heaven - for if you forgive others, you yourself will be forgiven.
 
I hope them to be saved. But it seems to be easy for them to be saved.
 
They have to repent to God of their mortal sins to be saved. They need to realize that a one-time transformation is inadequate and need to avoid the belief that the individual had never actually been saved in the first place. They need to realize that someone else who lost their salvation could be them as well and thus it’s important to have a good look at your interior life to make sure you have near absolute certainty of getting to heaven, something we all don’t deserve. We don’t earn it but we need to love God and love neighbor.

Treating people to repent of their sins and recommit their lives to Christ is very important virtue towards a Protestant (or a Catholic) getting saved. We have the benefit of confession but anyone who repents of their sins and believes that God’s death on the cross is what forgives these sins and the resurrection gave him the power to forgive these sins is what it takes to be saved. We shall thus love Him will all our heart.

My wife believes in the once saved, always saved premise. She’s living her life in charity so I’m less concerned but I do think recommitting one’s life to Christ is very important! I believed I was saved but being born again truly means to have at least an eventual transformation and to live your life loyally to God with Holy Spirit help.
 
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The fact is, we don’t know. What we do know is Christ gave us a church to aid in our salvation, but I wouldn’t presume to limit God by saying that’s the only way he’d save someone.
 
That was the mistake of pre-Vatican II. I wouldn’t presume that the Church is the only way to heaven.
 
Did the church definitively say the only way pre Vii was the church?
 
Being a good person doesn’t save you, Catholic or Protestant. It can be the fruits of being saved, however, one’s charitable and loyal unwavering heart.
 
Yes and the Church post-Vatican II says the same thing. But in both times, for those in innocent error but motivated by faith and charity, the Church has acknowledged other salvific ways of belonging to the Church than strict membership. In addition, as Vatican II states, “God in ways known to Himself can lead those inculpably ignorant of the Gospel to find that faith without which it is impossible to please Him.”
 
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Yes, the Church definitively teaches that non-Catholics can be saved.
We also hold that all those who are saved are members of the Body of Christ, or Catholic Church.

So, this teaching shouldn’t be distorted to say that our wordly religious label sticks to us in heaven.
There is only one body of Christ.
 
I love the parable of the day laborers.
“Are you envious because I am generous?”.
If God gives eternal life to those we least expect, glory to God for his generosity.
 
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That was the mistake of pre-Vatican II. I wouldn’t presume that the Church is the only way to heaven.
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JanSobieskiIII said:
Did the church definitively say the only way pre Vii was the church?
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There was a controversy pre-Vatican II where a Father Feeney taught that only those who are formally members of the Church can be saved. The Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston, Aug. 8, 1949 (http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdffeeny.htm) refuted this and explained that some with “a certain unconscious yearning and desire” can be united to the Mystical Body of Christ. The letter further states that the desire “be animated by perfect charity” and the person must have supernatural faith.” Even here, however, it is through the joining, at least implicitly, of the person with the Church that will effect salvation.

So this teaching precedes Vatican II.

Blessings
 
This is also a good parable to note that God calls people at different times. Just because someone has not converted yet, doesn’t mean they are ignoring the call. Sometimes God even calls souls at the “eleventh hour” and they don’t have to put in any work if they accept the call (to me, this seems like a call very near the moment of death and would be one of the instances where the person comes to the necessary faith in a way only “known to Himself,” as I quoted in my prior post.)
 
I was literally just looking this up yesterday. It had been on my mind lately because someone I knew from school had passed away recently. They were not Catholic so I felt unsure of what to think about their fate. And as I thought about it more, I had a moment where I was snuggling my puppy. I looked into her cute puppy face and even though she destroyed the house and licks the furniture etc, I could only look at her with love. I felt like God was telling me that, that is how he sees us. My dog doesn’t know any better and tries her best to be good. In the same way, I think God sees those who do what they know is best without fail, as his children who through no fault of their own (because they were never properly educated in the Faith) do not realize the mistakes they have made. God is love and is not bound by his rules. So he can only love. And the only way a person can go to hell is by knowingly turning away from God. But if they do not know any better, then I think God has a lot of mercy for them. You can correct me if I am wrong though! I don’t want to be a heretic. 😅
 
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