"Former Catholics and salvation?" An article on this question

[mdgspencer]

Former Catholics and salvation? | The Catholic Weekly

Dear Father, many years ago my brother, who was brought up Catholic albeit without much formation, married a Protestant and ever since has worshipped in a Protestant Church, where he is very active and convinced of his new beliefs. Can he still be saved? At the outset we should remember that...

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[CRV]

Thanks for sharing - a good article considering many people have lapsed family members or even those who have left the Catholic Faith and practice another now, as the ‘brother’ in the article.

 

[steve-b]

Former Catholics and salvation? | The Catholic Weekly

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The Second Vatican Council goes on to explain how the Catholic Church is related to these other Christians: “The Church knows that she is joined in many ways to the baptised who are honoured by the name of Christian, but who do not however profess the Catholic faith in its entirety or have not preserved unity or communion under the successor of Peter.

THAT describes people who contradict Jesus own prayer

Jn 17:
20 “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.

Point also being made, by Vat II, One who isn’t one with the Church won’t be with Him in the end.

mdgspencer:

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For there are many who hold sacred scripture in honour as a rule of faith and of life, who have a sincere religious zeal, who lovingly believe in God the Father Almighty and in Christ, the Son of God and the Saviour, who are sealed by baptism which unites them to Christ, and who indeed recognise and receive other sacraments in their own Churches or ecclesiastical communities…; these Christians are indeed in some real way joined to us in the Holy Spirit…” (LG 15).

THAT doesn’t contradict or reverse (LG 14)

14 … Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches … Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.

If you want to see the evidence (properly referenced), from scripture & tradition, just ask