for catholic people to answer..?

Question

Catholics say you sin when you ..eat meat on fridays..have sex before marriage..don't go to church every sundays..can't be gay..have to be baptize..and too many to mention etc etc..

But what about the people who where born in the remote parts of the planets? like the people who still live in tribes, who have no contact with the outside world and wouldnt know about the catholic way..
Of course they pratice sex before marriage and of course they eat meat on fridays esp HOLY week since but don't know what holy week is..

so just wondering do you guys consider them as sinners? it's not their fault they werent expose to the same beliefs you believe in...

Answer 1

They don't need a religion. They are just fine without missionaries.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church believes that those who die never hearing of Christ but have sought the truth and does the will of God as they understand it can be saved. This is called the Baptism of desire.

As Romans 2:13-16 states:

For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified. For when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves even though they do not have the law. They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people's hidden works through Christ Jesus.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

A baptized Catholic is subject to the laws and precepts of the church.

Others are responsible for observing only a small subset of them ... those having to do with the natural law, that is written in the heart of every human being, by God.

So the answer is: Those who respond to the grace that God gives them, whether or not they know him or his church, MIGHT be justified by their cooperation with his will.

St. Paul would tell you that this becomes a law in itself ... and a good one.

There's no sin in cooperating with God's will, Catholic or not ... and God will not judge anyone based on laws they had no way of knowing about.

There's lots more to consider here ... lots of if, ands, and buts ... so don't draw unwarranted conclusions from it.

Answer 4

Those rules only apply to Catholics (especially the meat on Fridays). Catholics don't expect non-members to follow the rules before they're members. (There's a passage in Romans about conscience and people who've never been exposed to the "law".)

Answer 5

Catholics are not judgmental people.