"[E]nsure
that the faithful are deeply and thoroughly convinced of the truth
of the doctrine that the Catholic faith is necessary for attaining
salvation." (Bl. Pope Pius IX, "Nostis et
Nobiscum", 1849 A.D.)
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Today
it not uncommon to hear people expressing the opinion that "all
good people go to heaven". Even Catholics seem to put aside
their faith in the hope that all people they consider "good"
will be saved. And usually, their definition of "good people"
is quite broad and may exclude only those very egregious violators of the
natural law.
Perhaps
they don't realize that our Lord has said "How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And
those who find it are few" (Mt. 7:14) and "Many are
invited, but few are chosen" (Mt. 22:14) and "Strive to enter
through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but
will not be strong enough" (Lk. 13:24). Maybe they
have forgotten that Christ has said, "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but
whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him."
(Jn. 3:36) Perhaps they have never reflected on the fact that Christ let
those who couldn't accept his teaching on the Eucharist leave him. Maybe
they have forgotten that there are various other duties/behaviors
essential for salvation, even
beyond reception of the sacraments [e.g. that we forgive one another
(Mt. 6:14), obey the commandments (Mt. 19:17), deny ourselves (Mk. 8:34),
carry our cross (Lk. 14:27), perform good works (Jms. 2:26), accept the kingdom
of God like a child (Lk. 18:17), undergo hardships (Acts 14:22), act in righteousness
(1 Jn. 3:10), refrain from lying (Rv. 21:27), be chaste (Rv. 21:8), etc.], and that a generic "being good" is
simply not enough for salvation.
Perhaps
they haven't taken to heart our Lord's admonition that "unless your
righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not
enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Mt. 5:20) and that "Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like
a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a
fire and they will be burned." (Jn. 15:6)
Perhaps
they do not realize that Church teaching tells us that God will not
weigh one's whole life in a scale - but that those who die in mortal
sin are subject to damnation - no matter how good their life was
before
that point. "Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, wherever it falls, there shall it lie."
(Eccl. 11:3)
Perhaps
they also forget that "the whole world is under the power of the
evil one." (1 Jn. 5:19) and that "our struggle is not with
flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the
world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the
heavens." (Eph. 6:12)
Maybe
they have forgotten St. Paul's writing that "We have become partners of Christ if only we
hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end" (Heb. 3:14)
or
that "If we sin deliberately after
receiving knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains
sacrifice for sins but a fearful prospect of judgment and a
flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries" (Heb.10:26-27)
and that we are to "work out
[our] salvation with fear and trembling." (Phil. 2:12)
How is it that
such people are sure of the salvation of self-proclaimed "good
people" (who they may or may not know very well - and certainly
they cannot know the hidden thoughts of their hearts), but St. Paul
himself was not sure of his own salvation? (see 1 Cor. 9:27) How is it they feel
qualified to judge whether or not someone is worthy of salvation when judgment
belongs to the Lord alone? Are they unaware that Church has infallibly
taught that there is no salvation outside the Church?
From Pentecost forward, the Church has always taught the necessity of being formally incorporated into her fold. In fact, St. Peter, the first Pope, told the good Jews that they needed to be added to the Church to be saved. Just days previously, these devout Jews were practicing the true religion, but St. Peter, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, informed them that they needed to believe in Christ and be baptized - and therefore be added to Christ's only true Church - for salvation. Those who wouldn't heed his teaching were not "added to their number those who were being
saved" (Acts 2:47).
Maybe some will
argue now that today's "good people" are
"at least in another Christian religion, and very active in religion
at that". Surely that is "no big deal" as long as
they are "good people", right? To treat matters of religion as
if there was no real truth, or as if any religion was sufficient, is to
deny truth. Scripture clearly tells us that "After a first and second warning,
break off contact with a heretic, realizing that such a person is
perverted and sinful and stands self-condemned." (Ti.
3:10-11) Scripture warns repeatedly about false teachers and even warns "If
anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him
in your house or even greet him; for whoever greets him shares in his
evil works." (2 Jn. 1:10-11). In fact, St. John, the "Apostle
of Love" lived up to his teachings so carefully that he would not
even remain in a building with a heretic. His disciples
and their disciples also would flee from and teach against heresy.
[For
example, St. Ignatius of Antioch, a hearer of St. John the Apostle, (c. 110
A.D.) teaches: "Do not err, my brethren: the corrupters of families will not inherit the kingdom of God. And if they who do these things according to the flesh suffer death, how much more if a man corrupt by evil teaching the faith of God, for the sake of which Jesus Christ was crucified? A man become so foul will depart into unquenchable fire; and so also will anyone who listens to him."]
But, they argue,
the "good person" is really "enthused about Christ". In that case, we remind that Christ said that all who
say "Lord, Lord" will not enter the kingdom of heaven (cf. Mt.
7:21) and He also said to those He appointed that "Whoever
listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And
whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me." (Lk. 10:16)
St. Paul reminds us that "whoever resists authority opposes what
God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring judgment upon
themselves." (Rom.13:2) By turning their back
on the Church, they are turning their back on the only lawful authority on earth who can forgive their sins
(cf. Mt. 16:19, Jn. 20:22-23). They are turning their back
on the Church, called Christ's Body in Scripture (see Col. 1:18) and are literally
turning their back on Christ in the Holy Eucharist. We can see
that the first to reject the Eucharist were the first to leave Christ (see
Jn. 6:66) - and Christ let them go.
We must also point
out that the Church has consistently made statements confirming the
necessity of being Catholic for salvation. In fact, the
necessity of being Catholic for salvation has been put forward by the
Church in an infallible - and therefore irreformable - manner. Some
statements confirming the well-known dogma of "no salvation outside
the Church" include:
"One
indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at
all is saved..." (Lateran Council IV, 1215 A.D.)
"The
first condition of salvation is to maintain the rule of the true
faith." (Fourth Council of Constantinople)
"Outside
the Church baptism can be put in you but it cannot avail you" (St.
Augustine, Doctor of the Church, 5th century A.D.)
"All
who wish to reach salvation outside the Church are mistaken as to the
way and are engaged in a futile effort." (Pope Leo XIII)
"No
one can be justified unless he faithfully and unhesitatingly accepts the
Catholic doctrine on justification." (Council of Trent)
"If
anyone is outside the Ark of Noe [that is, the Church] he will perish in the over-whelming
flood." (St. Jerome, Doctor of the Church)
"For
unless one preserves the faith entire and uninjured, he will without
doubt perish forever." (Bl. Pope Pius IX, "Qui Pluribus",
1846 A.D.)
"Anyone
who dares to secede from Peter's solid rock may understand that he has
not part or lot in the divine mystery." (Pope St. Leo I the Great,
Doctor of the Church, 445 A.D.)
"The
Church is like the ark of Noah, outside of which nobody can be
saved." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and
"greatest theologian in the history of the Church")
"[E]nsure
that the faithful are deeply and thoroughly convinced of the truth of
the doctrine that the Catholic faith is necessary for attaining
salvation." (Bl. Pope Pius IX, "Nostis et Nobiscum", 1849
A.D.)
"Whoever
wishes to be saved must, above all, keep the Catholic faith; for unless
a person keeps this faith whole and entire he will undoubtedly be lost
forever." (Athanasian Creed)
"Furthermore,
we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for
salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman
Pontiff." (Pope Boniface VIII, "Unam Sanctam", 1302 A.D.)
"We
know that salvation belongs to the Church alone, and that no one can
partake of Christ nor be saved outside the Catholic Church and the
Catholic Faith." (St. John Chrysostom, Doctor of the Church)
"He
who will not willingly and humbly enter the gate of the Church will
certainly be damned and enter the gate of Hell whether he wants to or
not." (St. Bede the Venerable, Doctor of the Church)
"The
holy universal Church proclaims that God cannot truly be worshiped save
within herself and asserts that all they who are without her pale shall
never be saved." (Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church,
6th century A.D.)
"Indeed,
as long as you remain outside the Church and severed from the fabric of
unity and bond of charity, you would be punished with everlasting
chastisement, even if you were burned alive for Christ's sake."
(St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church)
"Hold
most firmly and never doubt in the least that no person baptized outside
the Catholic Church can become a participant of eternal life if, before
the end of this life, he has not returned and has been incorporated in
the Catholic Church." (St. Fulgence of Ruspe, 6th century A.D.)
"It
is known that all men of Noah's time perished, except those who merited
to be in the Ark, which was a figure of the Church. Likewise, they
cannot now be saved who will have turned away from the Apostolic Faith
and the Catholic Church." (St. Gaudentius)
"Whosoever
shall have separated himself from the Catholic Church, no matter how
praiseworthy such a person may fancy his life has been, yet for that one
crime of having cut himself off from the unity of Christ he shall not
have eternal life, but the wrath of God shall abide with him for
ever." (St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church, 5th century A.D.)
"Let
no one, then, be persuaded otherwise, nor let anyone deceive himself:
outside this house, that is, outside the Church, no one is saved. For if
anyone go outside, he is guilty of his own death." [Origen
("the greatest scholar of Christian antiquity" - although he
would eventually be excommunicated and be regarded as a heretic), 3rd
century A.D.]
"There
is but one plain known road: when you wander from this, you are lost.
You must be altogether within the House of God, within the walls of
salvation, to be sound and safe from injury. If you wander and walk
abroad ever so little, if you carelessly thrust hand or foot out of the
Ship, you shall be thrust forth: the door is shut, the ocean roars, you
are undone." (St. Edmund Campion)
"According
to the words of Saint Augustine, who takes up an image dear to the
ancient Fathers, the ship of the Church must not fear, because it is
guided by Christ and by His Vicar. 'Although the ship is tossed about,
it is still a ship. It alone carries the disciples and receives Christ.
Yes, it is tossed on the sea, but, outside it, one would immediately
perish.' Only in the Church is salvation. 'Outside it one
perishes.'" (Pope John Paul I, 1978)
"[W]e
have to be conscious of and absorb this fundamental and revealed truth,
contained in the phrase consecrated by tradition: 'There is no salvation
outside the Church'. From her alone there flows surely and fully the
life-giving force destined in Christ and in His Spirit to renew the
whole of humanity, and therefore directing every human being to become a
part of the Mystical Body of Christ." (Pope John Paul II, 1981)
"Anyone
who is outside this Church, which received the keys of the kingdom of
heaven, is walking a path not to heaven but to hell. He is not
approaching the home of eternal life; rather, he is hastening to the
torment of eternal death. And this is the case not only if he remains a
pagan without Baptism, but even if, after having been baptized in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, he continue as
a heretic." (St. Fulgence of Ruspe, 6th century A.D.)
"We
must mention and condemn again that most pernicious error, which has
been imbibed by certain Catholics, who are of the opinion that those
people who live in error and have not the true faith, and are separated
from the Catholic unity, may obtain life everlasting. Now this opinion
is contrary to Catholic Faith, as is evident from the plain words of Our
Lord (Mt. 18:17; Mk. 16:16; Lk. 10:16) as also from the words
of St. Paul (e.g. Acts 20:28-30) and of St. Peter (2 Pt. 2:1). To entertain
opinions contrary to this Catholic Faith is to be an impious
wretch." (Bl. Pope Pius IX)
"A
man cannot have salvation, except in the Catholic Church. Outside the
Catholic Church he can have everything except salvation. He can have
honor, he can have Sacraments, he can sing alleluia, he can answer amen,
he can possess the gospel, he can have and preach faith in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit; but never except in
the Catholic Church will he be able to find salvation." (St.
Augustine, Doctor of the Church, c. 418 A.D.)
"This
holy Council first of all turns its attention to the Catholic faithful.
Basing itself on scripture and tradition, it teaches that the Church, a
pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is
mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which
is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and
baptism (cf. Mk. 16:16; Jn. 3:5), and thereby affirmed at the same time
the necessity of the Church which men enter through baptism as through a
door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic
Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse
either to enter it, or to remain in it." (Second Vatican Council)
"The
Bride of Christ cannot be defiled. She is inviolate and chaste. She
knows but one home, and with a chaste modesty she guards the sanctity of
one bedchamber. It is she that keeps us for God, she that seals for the
kingdom the sons whom she bore. Whoever is separated from the Church and
is joined to an adulteress is separated from the promises of the Church;
nor will he that forsakes the Church of Christ attain to the rewards of
Christ. He is an alien, a worldling, and an enemy. He cannot have God
for his Father who does not have the Church for his mother. If anyone
outside the ark of Noah was able to escape, then perhaps someone outside
the pale of the Church may escape" (St. Cyprian of Carthage, c. 251
A.D.)
"Hold
most firmly and never doubt in the least that the Sacrament of Baptism
is able to exist not only within the Catholic Church but also among
heretics who are baptizing in the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit; but outside the Catholic Church it cannot be of any
profit; nay, just as within the Church salvation is conferred through
the Sacrament of Baptism upon those who believe rightly, so too, outside
the Church, if they do not return to the Church, ruin is heaped up for
those who were baptized by the same Baptism. For it is the unity as such
of ecclesiastical society that avails unto salvation, so that a man is
not saved by Baptism to whom it was not given in that place where it is
needful that it be given." (St. Fulgence of Ruspe, 6th century
A.D.)
"Urged
by faith, we are obliged to believe and to maintain that the Church is
one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We believe in her firmly and we
confess with simplicity that outside of her there is neither salvation
nor the remission of sins, as the Spouse in the Canticles (Sgs. 6:8)
proclaims: 'One is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only one, the
chosen of her who bore her,' and she represents one sole mystical body
whose Head is Christ and the head of Christ is God (1 Cor. 11:3). In her
then is one Lord, one faith, one baptism (Eph. 4:5). There had been at
the time of the deluge only one ark of Noah, prefiguring the one Church,
which ark, having been finished to a single cubit, had only one pilot
and guide, i.e., Noah, and we read that, outside of this ark, all that
subsisted on the earth was destroyed." (Pope Boniface VIII,
"Unam Sanctam", 1302 A.D.)
"The
third mark of the Church is that she is Catholic; that is, universal.
And justly is she called Catholic, because, as St. Augustine says, she
is diffused by the splendor of one faith from the rising to the setting
sun. Unlike states of human institutions of the sects of heretics, she
is not confined to any one country or class of men, but embraces within
the amplitude of her love all mankind, whether barbarians or Scythians,
slaves or freemen, male or female... Moreover to this Church, built on
the foundation of the apostles and prophets belong all the faithful who
have existed from Adam to the present day, or who shall exist, in the
profession of the true faith, to the end of time... She is also called
universal, because all who desire eternal salvation must cling to and
embrace her, like those who entered the ark to escape perishing in the
flood." (Catechism of the Council of Trent)
"[The
Holy Roman Catholic Church] firmly believes, professes, and proclaims
that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but
also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in
eternal life, but will depart 'into everlasting fire which was prepared
for the devil and his angels' (Matt. 25:41), unless before the end of
life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the
ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are
the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings,
almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian
service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he
has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be
saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic
Church." (Council of Florence, c. 1441 A.D.) [Denzinger 714]
"Furthermore
We teach and declare that the Roman Church, by the disposition of the
Lord, holds the sovereignty of ordinary power over all others, and that
this power of jurisdiction on the part of the Roman Pontiff, which is
truly episcopal, is immediate; and with respect to this the pastors and
the faithful of whatever rite and dignity, both as separate individuals
and all together, are bound by the duty of hierarchical subordination
and true obedience, not only in things which pertain to faith and
morals, but also in those which pertain to the discipline and government
of the Church [which is] spread over the whole world, so that the Church
of Christ, protected not only by the Roman Pontiff, but by the unity of
communion as well as of the profession of the same faith is one flock
under the one highest shepherd. This is the doctrine of Catholic truth
from which no one can deviate and keep his faith and salvation."
(Vatican Council I, 1870 A.D.)
"Among
these heresies belongs that foul contrivance of the sophists of this age
who do not admit any difference among the different professions of faith
and who think that the portal of eternal salvation opens for all from
any religion. They, therefore, label with the stigma of levity and
stupidity those who, having abandoned the religion which they learned,
embrace another of any kind, even Catholicism. This is certainly a
monstrous impiety which assigns the same praise and the mark of the just
and upright man to truth and to error, to virtue and to vice, to
goodness and to turpitude. Indeed this deadly idea concerning the lack
of difference among religions is refuted even by the light of natural
reason. We are assured of this because the various religions do not
often agree among themselves. If one is true, the other must be false;
there can be no society of darkness with light. Against these
experienced sophists the people must be taught that the profession of
the Catholic faith is uniquely true, as the apostle proclaims: one Lord,
one faith, one baptism. Jerome used to say it this way: he who eats the
[Eucharist] outside this house will perish as did those during the flood
who were not with Noah in the ark." (Pope Pius VIII, "Traditi
Humilitati", 1829 A.D.)
"Now,
if we look at what was done, Jesus Christ did not arrange and organize
such a Church as would embrace several communities similar in kind, but
distinct, and not bound together by those bonds that make the Church
indivisible and unique after that manner clearly in which we profess in
the symbol of faith, 'I believe in one Church.' ... Now, Jesus Christ
when He was speaking of such a mystical edifice, spoke only of one
Church which He called His own: 'I will build my Church' (Matt. 16:18).
Whatever other church is under consideration than this one, since it was
not founded by Jesus Christ, cannot be the true Church of Christ... And
so the Church is bound to spread among all men the salvation
accomplished by Jesus Christ, and all the blessings that proceed
therefrom, and to propagate them through the ages. Therefore, according
to the will of its Author the Church must be alone in all lands in the
perpetuity of time... The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and
perpetual; whoever go apart (from it) wander away from the will and
prescription of Christ the Lord and, leaving the way of salvation,
digress to destruction." (Pope Leo XIII, "Satis
cognitum", 1898)
"But
this supremacy of man, which openly rejects Christ, or at least ignores
Him, is entirely founded upon selfishness, knowing neither charity nor
self-devotion. Man may indeed be king, through Jesus Christ: but only on
condition that he first of all obey God, and diligently seek his rule of
life in God's law. By the law of Christ we mean not only the natural
precepts of morality and the Ancient Law, all of which Jesus Christ has
perfected and crowned by His declaration, explanation and sanction; but
also the rest of His doctrine and His own peculiar institutions. Of
these the chief is His Church. Indeed whatsoever things Christ has
instituted are most fully contained in His Church. Moreover, He willed
to perpetuate the office assigned to Him by His Father by means of the
ministry of the Church so gloriously founded by Himself. On the one hand
He confided to her all the means of men's salvation, on the other He
most solemnly commanded men to be subject to her and to obey her
diligently, and to follow her even as Himself: 'He that heareth you,
heareth Me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth Me' (Luke x, 16).
Wherefore the law of Christ must be sought in the Church. Christ is
man's 'Way'; the Church also is his 'Way' - Christ of Himself and by His
very nature, the Church by His commission and the communication of His
power. Hence all who would find salvation apart from the Church, are led
astray and strive in vain." (Pope Leo XIII, "Tametsi Futura
Prospicientibus", 1900 A.D.)
"Now
We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church
is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread
on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to
obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind
of religion, as long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a
matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed
to your care. With the admonition of the apostle that 'there is one God,
one faith, one baptism' may those fear who contrive the notion that the
safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever.
They should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that 'those who are
not with Christ are against Him,' and that they disperse unhappily who
do not gather with Him. Therefore 'without a doubt, they will perish
forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate.' Let
them hear Jerome who, while the Church was torn into three parts by
schism, tells us that whenever someone tried to persuade him to join his
group he always exclaimed: 'He who is for the See of Peter is for me.' A
schismatic flatters himself falsely if he asserts that he, too, has been
washed in the waters of regeneration. Indeed Augustine would reply to
such a man: 'The branch has the same form when it has been cut off from
the vine; but of what profit for it is the form, if it does not live
from the root?'' (Pope Gregory XVI, "Mirari Vos", 1832 A.D.)
"You
know how zealously Our predecessors taught that very article of faith
which these dare to deny, namely the necessity of the Catholic faith and
of unity for salvation. The words of that celebrated disciple of the
apostles, martyred St. Ignatius, in his letter to the Philadelphians are
relevant to this matter: 'Be not deceived, my brother; if anyone follows
a schismatic, he will not attain the inheritance of the kingdom of God.'
Moreover, St. Augustine and the other African bishops who met in the
Council of Cirta in the year 412 explained the same thing at greater
length: 'Whoever has separated himself from the Catholic Church, no
matter how laudably he lives, will not have eternal life, but has earned
the anger of God because of this one crime: that he abandoned his union
with Christ.' Omitting other appropriate passages which are almost
numberless in the writings of the Fathers, We shall praise St. Gregory
the Great who expressly testifies that this indeed is the teaching of
the Catholic Church. He says: 'The holy universal Church teaches that it
is not possible to worship God truly except in her and asserts that all
who are outside of her will not be saved.' Official acts of the Church
proclaim the same dogma. Thus, in the decree on faith which Innocent III
published with the synod of Lateran IV, these things are written: 'There
is one universal Church of all the faithful outside of which no one is
saved.' Finally the same dogma is also expressly mentioned in the
profession of faith proposed by the Apostolic See... Strive to eradicate
these slithering errors with all your strength. Inspire the
populace...to keep the Catholic faith and unity as the only way of
salvation with an ever more ardent zeal, and, thus, to avoid every
danger of forsaking it." (Pope Gregory XVI, "Summo Iugiter
Studio", 1832 A.D.)
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The doctrine of
"No Salvation Outside the Church" has been always held and
dogmatically defined. It should be noted that it is not even within the power of
the Church to change dogmatically defined doctrines. As stated by the
First Vatican Council...
"For
the doctrine of the faith which God has revealed is put forward not as
some philosophical discovery capable of being perfected by human
intelligence, but as a divine deposit committed to the spouse of Christ
to be faithfully protected and infallibly promulgated. Hence, too, that
meaning of the sacred dogmas is ever to be maintained which has once
been declared by holy mother church, and there must never be any
abandonment of this sense under the pretext or in the name of a more
profound understanding." (First Vatican Council)
Even if a priest
or another person in power was to say differently, they have no
authority to do so. Truths are not opinions and are not subject to
change.
We must remember
that Christ founded only one Church and entrusted St. Peter with the
keys to the kingdom of heaven. Other so-called churches, even if they
call themselves "Christian" were founded by men. They were not
instituted by Christ and have not existed since Christ walked the earth.
These so called "churches" deny Christ's flesh (the Eucharist)
and his body
(the Church). They cannot bind and loose sins or teach infallibly. Those who belong to them
resist the ordering of God. In a matter of such importance, one
must be especially careful to hold fast to the truth. Yes, it really
does matter! One really must be Catholic. One's eternal future is at
stake! Wishful thinking does not change this fact.
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