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I am so tired of hearing “no salvation outside the Church” from people who do not complete this statement & explain it the way that the Church does. If one is just going to proclaim this** one part **of the teaching, without speaking of the Baptism of Desire & invincible ignorance, then one should not mention it at all, at least not to non-Catholics who would, OF COURSE, take offense. If I were one of them, I would.@luvlife:
I’m sorry that you have had such a liberal parish. There is no Salvation outside of the Church, this is Infallible doctrine. So no you are not allowed to have you own opinion and not be deemed a heretic. You should of course know that most RCIA classes are very heretical and make it a point to teach heresy. This is why I would advise any Converts, especially young people to not take the RCIA to instead see if you can research privately especially with a real Catholic priest for example an FSSP priest.
Concerning this doctrine the Pope of Vatican I, Pius IX, spoke on two different occasions. In an allocution (address to an audience) on December 9th, 1854 he said:
We must hold as of the faith, that out of the Apostolic Roman Church there is no salvation; that she is the only ark of safety, and whosoever is not in her perishes in the deluge; we must also, on the other hand, recognize with certainty that those who are invincible in ignorance of the true religion are not guilty for this in the eyes of the Lord. And who would presume to mark out the limits of this ignorance according to the character and diversity of peoples, countries, minds and the rest?
Again, in his encyclical Quanto conficiamur moerore of 10 August, 1863 addressed to the Italian bishops, he said:
It is known to us and to you that those who are in invincible ignorance of our most holy religion, but who observe carefully the natural law, and the precepts graven by God upon the hearts of all men, and who being disposed to obey God lead an honest and upright life, may, aided by the light of divine grace, attain to eternal life; for God who sees clearly, searches and knows the heart, the disposition, the thoughts and intentions of each, in His supreme mercy and goodness by no means permits that anyone suffer eternal punishment, who has not of his own free will fallen into sin.