Roman Catholics...?

Question

do you believe the pope that salvation is only available through the RCC?

Katarina...you are wrong

Paul
You are wrong and the worst part about this is that you know you are wrong.

Answer 1

Although I answered your other question I won't even bother on this one.
You are just trying to inflame people..especially RC's

thanks for the 2 points

Answer 2

That is not what the Pope said.

The Catholic Church does teach that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation, but one must look at what this really means. Paragraph 3 of the Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio, 21 November 1964) says that our separated brethren "who believe in the faith of Christ and have been properly baptized are put in some, though imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church." It also says that "all who have been justified by faith in baptism are incorporated into Christ, they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as brothers by the children of the Catholic Church."

Everyone is saved through the Catholic Church, either as faithful members of that Church, or as members of churches which contain some significant elements of truth and sanctification found in the Catholic Church, or as persons who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do His will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience. For this reason, a Bishop is responsible for every soul within his diocese, not just the Catholic ones.

Answer 3

If SALVATION only comes through the RCC, then where will Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the rest of the prophets go? These people were not Catholics at all?

Have we already lost a great deal of COMMON SENSE here, guys?

God bless...
GH

Answer 4

all they need to do is read REVELATION 17: 4 and 18: 4 while they still have time! JESUS is the only way to salvation and nobody else! everything that GOD has, the devil has the total opposite, the SEAL of GOD -----the MARK of the b e a s t! "SATURDAY" or Sunday, which is the LAW and which is MAN MADE can you answer that! it is self explanatory! but once again the choice is yours you can believe tradition or the WORD of GOD!

Answer 5

The Pope did not say that. He simply approved a new document that states nothing new. Here is the full text of the new document: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

Most Christian denominations believe that each of them is the fullest version of the Church of Christ.

While the Catholic Church also believes that she is "the highest exemplar" of the mystery that is the Church of Christ, she does not claim that non-Catholic Churches are not truly Christian. The Catholic Church teaches:

Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.

Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church.

All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 819: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#819

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

Jessus endowed his authentic church with ALL the grace he obtained for us by his atoning sacrifice.

God can save whomsoever he wishes, and he can do it for any reason he chooses, but all are saved by the application of the saving grace that has already been entrusted to the Catholic church alone.

This is why there can be no salvation outside the church, which remains God's universal sacrament of salvation.

Always will be, too.

Answer 7

Actually at Vatican II the Church officially stated that salvation *is* available to Protestants. It was sort of an "Oops, our bad," on the "no salvation outside the Catholic Church" policy. What the Church teaches is that the Catholic Church does contain the FULLNESS of Truth. Other denominations, being centered on Christ, contain *some* of the Truth, but complete Truth can only be found in Catholicism. The Church absolutely does not teach that non-Catholics are going to hell.

Answer 8

No. But I've studied other religions, so maybe I'm a rule to the exception. I believe only misguided people believe this and that God knows what's in everyone's heart. A religion can't decide this.

Answer 9

Yes. Salvation is available only THROUGH the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church alone received the news of salvation from its founder, Jesus Christ, and the Catholic Church alone brought that truth from the First Century to modern times. But that does NOT mean that only Catholics can be saved, and the Catholic Church does NOT teach that.

Answer 10

salvation is only available through the self!