No salvation outside of the Church?

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There are religious communities where he can be enrolled in perpetual Masses as well. I like to have my loved ones enrolled with the Seraphic Mass Association. You can find them online. Masses will be said for him regularly!
 
Only Jesus knows of what His Final Mercy will be. We have the catechism and canon law to guide us on this question but only Jesus knows of how His Final Mercy works. What we can do is pray others in the hope that they come to know Jesus. Also remember, “Much will be expected from the one who has been given much, and the more a man is trusted, the more people will expect of him” (Luke 12:48). God does not give anyone something they are unable to accomplish with His grace.
 
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Formal heresy is a mortal sin, and there is no forgiveness for mortal sin without repentance. If he actively rejected sound doctrine, he committed the mortal sin of heresy. If, however, he did not know the Truth from error, he did not sin thereby. God alone knows his degree of culpability, as well as any other sins he may have committed, and whether or not he repented.
 
Oh, wow! I didn’t know that. I’ll search for some!
 
MasterHaster said:
That exactly and explicitly is what not having free will is; not being able to do otherwise.
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One who wants to do something that is harmful to himself, is not free. He is enslaved to a sadistic master. He is “a slave to satan.” Christ came to set men free of the bondage to the evil one. In Him, remaining in Him, we are free of desires for evil, and free to desire and to do only that which is good.

Addictions - to tobacco, to drugs, to particular sins, to pornography - such addictions demonstrate an absence of freedom, and demonstrate to us the slavery that all sinning actually is.

Openness in the soul to evil, for evil, is not freedom - to do evil is not a free act, it is an abuse of freedom for one in Christ to depart from Him, and do evil.
 
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No , the church teaches ‘theres no salvation outside the church but God it the ultimate Judge and he decides’

Padre pio told his monks to pray for the protestant king of france on his death bed.

Andrew wommack is a protestant man and has a great healing ministry

Smith wigglesworth was protestant and spent his life healing people

They gave thier life for Jesus, in fact, I think many protestants are holier than many catholics, they obey the ten commandments, read scripture…
 
I’ll be honest with you, i’m looking at protestant pastors for healing of my body, people like curry blake and andrew wommack
 
Sorry, i meant king of England, the great grandfather of queen elizabeth, the one who collected stamps, he was the dad of the one in the kings speech. He protected catholic shrines
 
Hellothere said:
They gave thier life for Jesus, in fact, I think many protestants are holier than many catholics, they obey the ten commandments, read scripture…
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Catholics also believe in reading scripture and obeying the Ten Commandants.

Many Protestants are indeed very sincere Christians who strive to be holy. That doesn’t mean Protestantism itself is equal to Catholicism.
 
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I’m not saying it is, i’m just saying many are very holy
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Of course. They’d probably be even holier with access to the sacraments.

Just be wary of these televangelist types. A lot of them are scam artists.
 
Hellothere said:
No , the church teaches ‘theres no salvation outside the church
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No, Jesus teaches there is no salvation outside the Church. Christ gave the Catholic Church the authority.

He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me” (Luke 10:16).

The Church is “the fullness of him who fills all in all” (Eph. 1:23).

The Church is Christ in the world. It is almighty God who willed “that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known” (Ephesians 3:10).
 
The error many make is to read “no salvation outside the Church” in a rigidly exclusive sense rather than in the inclusive, or invitatory, sense.
All in heaven are part of the Church, whether they explicitly “carried the card” in their pocket or not. The Church welcomes all aboard and our responsibility is to accept that welcome and extend that welcome to others. God is not bound by the sacraments, so this welcome may happen by extraordinary means for many.
 
MasterHaster said:
You fundamentally don’t understand what free will is. You are saying anyone who does something “that is harmful to himself” could not do otherwise. How then is there any moral culpability?
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Scripture says we are slaves to sin. We are culpable because we do very often know right from wrong, and yet we still freely choose to do what is wrong. As a slave to sin I am not bound to commit every possible sin available to humanity. I have a choice in the specifics, but I fail in the big picture. The concept of slave to sin means I cannot stop sinning here or there in one way or another. In a general sense I’m never free of being a sinner, although I‘m not equally tempted towards all sins, and avoid many with some ease. Yet perfection eludes me nonetheless.
 
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in a rigidly exclusive sense rather than in the inclusive, or invitatory, sense.
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Jesus is pretty exclusive here…I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

I like what a priest said…it may be possible for a non Catholic to get to Heaven but everyone in Heaven is Catholic.
 
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in a rigidly exclusive sense rather than in the inclusive, or invitatory, sense.
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Jesus is pretty exclusive here…I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

I like what a priest said…it may be possible for a non Catholic to get to Heaven but everyone in Heaven is Catholic.
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Right, I think that’s what I said.
 
MasterHaster said:
You fundamentally don’t understand what free will is. You are saying anyone who does something “that is harmful to himself” could not do otherwise. How then is there any moral culpability?
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Many do not understand the distinction between “choice” and freedom.

The Catechism:
1731 Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.

1732 As long as freedom has not bound itself definitively to its ultimate good which is God, there is the possibility of choosing between good and evil, and thus of growing in perfection or of failing and sinning. This freedom characterizes properly human acts. It is the basis of praise or blame, merit or reproach.

1733 The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just. The choice to disobey and do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to “the slavery of sin.”<Cf. Rom 6:17>

1734 Freedom makes man responsible for his acts to the extent that they are voluntary. Progress in virtue, knowledge of the good, and ascesis enhance the mastery of the will over its acts.

1735 Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors.

1736 Every act directly willed is imputable to its author: …
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