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THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
Session V - Celebrated on the seventeenth day of June, 1546 under Pope
Paul III

Decree Concerning Original Sin
“That our CATHOLIC faith, without which it is impossible to please God…”

I’m confused. Isn’t this Feeneyism?
 
The Creed of the Council of Trent (1564):

“… I unhesitatingly accept and profess all the doctrines (especially those concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible teaching authority) handed down, defined, and explained by the sacred canons and ecumenical councils and especially those of this most holy Council of Trent (and by the ecumenical Vatican Council). And at the same time I condemn, reject, and anathematize everything that is contrary to those propositions, and all heresies without exception that have been condemned, rejected, and anathematized by the Church. I, N., promise, vow, and swear that, with God’s help, I shall most constantly hold and profess this true Catholic faith, outside which no one can be saved and which I now freely profess and truly hold. With the help of God, I shall profess it whole and unblemished to my dying breath; and, to the best of my ability, I shall see to it that my subjects or those entrusted to me by virtue of my office hold it, teach it, and preach it. So help me God and his holy Gospel” (emphasis not in original). [The words in parentheses in this paragraph were inserted into the Tridentine profession of faith by order of Pope Pius IX in a decree issued by the Holy Office, January 20, 1877 (Acta Sanctae Sedis, X [1877], pp. 71 ff.).]

It doesn’t say “Church” like the usual formula.
 
THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
Session V - Celebrated on the seventeenth day of June, 1546 under Pope
Paul III

Decree Concerning Original Sin
“That our CATHOLIC faith, without which it is impossible to please God…”

I’m confused. Isn’t this Feeneyism?
I’m confused…what is Feeneyism?🙂
 
Everyone in Heaven holds the Catholic faith :). Everyone in the other place does not :(.

Ergo, one who holds the Catholic faith is pleasing to God!
 
THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
Session V - Celebrated on the seventeenth day of June, 1546 under Pope
Paul III

Decree Concerning Original Sin
“That our CATHOLIC faith, without which it is impossible to please God…”

I’m confused. Isn’t this Feeneyism?
The Catholic Church is the one true Church- Salvation is to be found in her, who is both the bride and the body of Christ himself.

Catholics believe that all validly baptized (non-Catholic) Christians are in fact, in some kind of communion with the true Church by virtue of their baptism and their faith, whether or not they are conscious of this fact- So in a sense, y’all are Catholics who don’t really know themselves ;)- like children in adoptive homes who don’t know their true biological parents or their true home.

Peace!
 
You didn’t read Trent carefully. It said “CATHOLIC faith”. I suppose you can interprete Trent to mean “its necessary not as a means but as a precept”, so that it is only speaking of those who are culpably “without” and “outside” the Catholic faith. But that is a strange way to read it
 
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