Do Catholics think protestants are going to heaven?

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Please answer the question asked which is,

Do Catholics think protestants are going to heaven?
 
I sincerely hope they are, as I sincerely hope all Catholics are. We don’t know the demographics of Heaven.
 
Who are you asking? Are you asking the Catholics if they think the Protestants are going to heaven or the Protestants if they think the Catholics think they are going to heaven?
 
I cannot answer this as it is posted. Some will go to heaven, some will go to hell. I cannot tell how many of each there will be. I do not think that there is anything inherant in Protestantism that will damn anyone. It is all about how they accept God’s grace in their lives.
 
All things being equal Protestants have as much a chance as we Catholics of acheiving the beatific vision. That’s CLEAR Catholic doctrine as expressed in the CCC and if anyone disagrees I’d suggest they relook their faith…
 
You should have made it a public poll. That would have been more revealing.
 
A true protestant can’t go to heaven, because he’s rejected the Church. There is no salvation outside the church.

The answer is no.

That being said, just being born a protestant is hardly a sin. If one is a protestant out of ignorance and has been validly baptised, heaven is certainly a possibility.
 
Like St. Catherine of Siena, I pray:
How could I ever reconcile myself, Lord, to the prospect that a single one of those whom, like me, you have created in your image and likeness should become lost and slip from your hands? No, in absolutely no case do I want to see a single one of my brethren meet with ruin, not a single one of those who, through their like birth, are one with me by nature and by grace. I want them all to be wrested from the grasp of the ancient enemy, so that they all become yours to the honor and greater glorification of your name… If only your truth and your justice were to reveal themselves then I would desire that there no longer be a hell, or at least that no soul would go there. If I could remain united with you in love while, at the same time, placing myself before the entrance to hell and blocking it off in such a way that no one could enter again, then that would be the greatest of joys for me, for all those whom I love would then be saved."
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[St. Catherine of Siena, as cited in *Vie de Sainte Catherine de Sienne par le bienheureux Raymong de Capoue,
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ed. Hugueny, O.P. (Paris, n.d.), pp. 479, 481]
 
Daniel_Marsh said:
Please answer the question asked which is,

Do Catholics think protestants are going to heaven?
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I voted yes, but want to make it clear that I don’t assert that all Protestants go to heaven. Nor do I assert all Catholics go to heaven. All those who die impenitent in mortal sin, or merely original sin will be eternally excluded from the kingdom of heaven.

With that said, I also believe as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross:
One must investigate…what grace can do and whether even for it there is an absolute limit. This we have already seen: grace must come to man. By its own power, it can, at best, come up to his door but never force its way inside…it can come to him without his seeking it, without his desiring it. The question is whether it can complete its work without his cooperation. It seemed to us that this question had to be answered negatively…
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Grace is the Spirit of God, who descends to the soul of man. It can find no abode there if it is not freely taken in. That is a hard truth. It implies…the possibility, in principle, of excluding oneself from redemption and the kingdom of grace…
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*** All-merciful love can thus descend to everyone. We believe that it does so***… preparatory grace…can do no more than knock at the door… If [the soul] follows this inner prompting, then it subjects itself implicitly to the rule of grace. It is possible that it will not do this.
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The more that grace wins ground from the things that had filled the soul before it, the more it repels the effects of the acts directed against it… ***faith in the unboundedness of divine love and grace also ***justifies hope for the universality of redemption, although, through the possibility of resistance to grace that remains open in principles, the possibility of eternal damnation also persists…
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*** Human freedom can be neither broken nor neutralized by divine freedom, but it may well be, so to speak, outwitted. The descent of grace to the human soul is a free act of divine love. And there are no limits to how far it may extend.***
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[St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, aka Edith Stien, *Welt und Person. Beitrag zum christlichen Wahrheitsstreben,
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ed. by L. Gelber and Romaeus Leuven, O.C.D. (Freiburg, 1962), pp. 158ff]
 
I notice that on your profile that you are undecided on your religion. You could also go into all of the different religions and ask the same poll. The most important thing that I think you can do is find what Catholic church teaches about this. The church actually excommunicated a priest for teaching that only Catholics can get to heaven, in the '70’s an east coast priest, don’t remember the details.

regarding the poll…consider rewording the poll…

Do catholics think that protestants are excluded from heaven?

yes
no

Then ask for our protestant friends what they think by asking

Do protestants think that catholics are excluded from heaven?
yes
no
 
I think some will and some won’t, they have less chance than Catholics because of the lack of most of the Sacraments but ‘to whom much has been given much will be expected’ so it depends on their individual circumstances. Someone who becomes Protestant deliberately to reject the Catholic Church (as opposed to out of ignorance of the truth of the Catholic Church) I cannot imagine being very likely to get into Heaven, though it is not up to me to judge and I wouldn’t know the exact details to know how accountable they are. Someone that is born protestant, is a very devout Christian and a very moral person and knows nothing of the Catholic Church I think would certainly be saved through Purgatory, I think the vast majority would be a grey area in between
 
Do Catholics think protestants are going to heaven?

I speak for all Catholics.:whacky: They all say that some will and some wont. :bigyikes:
 
I did not use the word “all” in the question. so, please don’t read into the question what was not there.

How do I set this poll to public?
 
If they are obedient to God’s Commandment they will go to heaven. If they don’t and die of mortal sin, they will go to hell. If they die in venial sin, they will find themselves in Purgatory… I’m sure once they are in Purgatory they will say.

“Where am I?” Protestant ask.

Purgatory Resident. “You are in being cleanse from your sins. Welcome to Purgatory.”

“I thought this place didn’t exist.” He ask.

“Well it does. Didn’t you read the Scripture. Ultimately, we will go to heaven. We just have to pray with our brothers in heaven and earth.”
 
Dauphin said:
A true protestant can’t go to heaven, because he’s rejected the Church. There is no salvation outside the church.

The answer is no.

That being said, just being born a protestant is hardly a sin. If one is a protestant out of ignorance and has been validly baptised, heaven is certainly a possibility.
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Best and true answer.
 
Daniel_Marsh said:
I did not use the word “all” in the question. so, please don’t read into the question what was not there.

How do I set this poll to public?
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Without the word “all” or “some” in your question, it makes it impossible to answer the right answer.

People here were politely telling you that Catholics cannot answer the quetsion as you posted it.
 
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