Teaching on Baptism

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I am trying to get some material together for a Theology paper I am writing on Baptism, its necessity etc.
I have been told by a few older, much wiser Catholics that the way the necessity of Baptism used to be taught in schools was “There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church” however, it took into account whether a person was vincible or invincibly ignorant.
I was looking for this specific quote or reference so I can put it into perspective with the other explinations I am trying to bring out but I’m not sure where to find it.
Thanks!

JMJ
 
There is a pretty good reference about it here on CAtholic Answers. Not sure what the link is, but if you go to the main webpage for CA, and type in “necessity of Baptism” in the search, you should find the document.
 
If you check the CCC there is specific language in there, along with footnotes of the original Church documents that formed the basis of the Church’s teaching. That is the definitive source.
 
Primitive said:
Hello!
I am trying to get some material together for a Theology paper I am writing on Baptism, its necessity etc.
I have been told by a few older, much wiser Catholics that the way the necessity of Baptism used to be taught in schools was “There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church” however, it took into account whether a person was vincible or invincibly ignorant.
I was looking for this specific quote or reference so I can put it into perspective with the other explinations I am trying to bring out but I’m not sure where to find it.
Thanks!

JMJ
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Try CUFF.org

cuf.org/faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=146
 
Primitive said:
Hello!
I am trying to get some material together for a Theology paper I am writing on Baptism, its necessity etc.
I have been told by a few older, much wiser Catholics that the way the necessity of Baptism used to be taught in schools was “There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church” however, it took into account whether a person was vincible or invincibly ignorant.
I was looking for this specific quote or reference so I can put it into perspective with the other explinations I am trying to bring out but I’m not sure where to find it.
Thanks!

JMJ
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Augustine

Augustine (354 - 430), writing about this time in De Genesi Ad Literam, X: 39, declares, “The custom of our mother church in baptizing infants must not be . . . accounted needless, nor believed to be other than a tradition of the apostles.”

He further states, “If you wish to be a Christian, do not believe, nor say, nor teach, that infants who die before baptism can obtain the remission of original sin.” And again, “Whoever says that even infants are vivified in Christ when they depart this life without participation in His sacrament (Baptism), both opposes the Apostolic preaching and condemns the whole church which hastens to baptize infants, because it unhesitatingly believes that otherwise they cannot possibly be vivified in Christ.”
 
Primitive said:
Hello!
I am trying to get some material together for a Theology paper I am writing on Baptism, its necessity etc.
I have been told by a few older, much wiser Catholics that the way the necessity of Baptism used to be taught in schools was “There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church” however, it took into account whether a person was vincible or invincibly ignorant.
I was looking for this specific quote or reference so I can put it into perspective with the other explinations I am trying to bring out but I’m not sure where to find it.
Thanks!

JMJ
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Infant Baptism in the Early Church by Dennis Kastens
issuesetc.org/resource/journals/kastens.htm
 
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