If the Catholic Church is the One True religion, then what happens to someone who is Christian, but not Catholic. Say Lutheran, or Anglican? Do they go to hell? What happens to their soul? Or do they go to heaven as well?
On that note….what happens to a Child of an interfaith marriage that is baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, but not baptized Catholic?
All those baptized with valid form, matter, and intent (of the minister) are
validly baptized, and would not have to be “re-baptized” as a Catholic. In fact, rebaptism is a heresy, mainly practiced by Protestants.
The question seems to be based upon the erroneous premise that being a member of a particular religion is what gets you to heaven. It doesn’t.
The following applies to all humanity, no matter their declared religion:
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The souls of those who die in actual mortal sin, or only in Original Sin, immediately descend into Hell” (Denzinger 693).
That’s it. The only humans in hell now, or will ever be in hell are those who die in actual mortal sin or in original sin. One might think that’s a “narrow gate” to hell, but it is not. “For the gate is wide and the way is easy” (Matt 7:13) Lust is a mortal sin, for example. So one must constantly hold fast to the Christian teaching: “
repent and turn to God and perform deeds worthy of their repentance” (Acts 26:20) This is the “narrow door” of Christ that leads to heaven. Given the grace of God, the burden is light.
According to St. Pius X:
***Q. But if a man through no fault of his own is outside the Church, can he be saved?
A. If he is outside the Church through no fault of his, that is, if he is in good faith, and if he has received Baptism*, or at least has the implicit desire of Baptism*; and if, moreover, he sincerely seeks the truth and does God’s will as best he can such a man is indeed separated from the body of the Church, but is united to the soul of the Church and consequently is on the way of salvation
Moreover, Vatican II’s
Lumen Gentium 16, footnote 19 emphasized the authentic doctrine of the Church regarding how one may be joined to the Church by “implicit desire.” It is the Letter of the Holy See to the Archbishop of Boston refuting Feeneyism, a letter which was
approved and promulgated by Pope Pius XII. It stated explicitly:
God accepts also an implicit desire, so called because it is included in that good disposition of soul whereby a person wishes his will to be conformed to the will of God….But it must not be thought that any kind of desire of entering the Church suffices that one may be saved. It is necessary that the desire by which one is related to the Church be animated by perfect charity. Nor can an implicit desire produce its effect, unless a person has supernatural faith: “For he who comes to God must believe that God exists and is a rewarder of those who seek Him” (Heb. 11:6). The Council of Trent declares (Session VI, chap. 8): “Faith is the beginning of man’s salvation, the foundation and root of all justification, without which it is impossible to please God and attain to the fellowship of His children” (Denzinger, n. 801).”
Consequently, the authentic doctrine of the Catholic Church insists that those are saved and attain eternal life must necessarily be joined to the visible Catholic Church, or desire to be joined to her, even if implicitly. They must also have been given the gift of supernatural faith in Jesus Christ, animated by the Divine gift of perfect charity. We are saved by faith that worketh charity. If it be true charity, it necessarily includes the desire, at least implicit, of being joined to the true Church of Christ, founded by Him on the rock of Peter.
