1. All non Catholics with no exception are on the path to Hell (Vatican Council II, Ad Gentes 7).
Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door.-AG 7
2. Everyone with no exception needs to enter the Catholic Church, to avoid Hell and go to Heaven. (Vatican Council II, pre and post Vatican Council II Magisterium documents up to Pope John Paul II).
Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Orthodox Christians, Pentecostals and others are on the way to Hell unless before they die they enter the Catholic Church, the only Church Jesus founded (Ad Gentes7, CCC 845, 846,Dominus Iesus 20 etc).
1. “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215). Ex cathedra.
2. “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.).Ex cathedra.
3. “The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) Ex cathedra – from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS
Jews are no more the Chosen People of God since they rejected the Jewish Messiah promised by the Jewish Prophets. They no longer have the Temple, the sacrifice of the Temple nor the Awaited Messiah. Catholics are the Chosen People of God, they are the People of the New Covenant, they are the continuation of the Jewish Religion with the Sacrifice of the Mass. The Eucharist is the Ark of the Covenant which the Jews have lost.
According to Vatican Council II (Lumen Gentium 14, Ad Gentes 7) all those persons who know about Jesus and the Catholic Church and yet do not enter the Church are oriented to Hell. This would include all the participants in dialogue who know about Jesus and the Church. It includes Abraham Foxman, the National Director of ADL.
Ad Gentes 7 says all Jews need to enter the Catholic Church.
The Decree on Ecumenism (UR) 3, Vatican Council II: Catholic Church is the true faith.Not Judaism.
No where in Vatican Council II is it said that Jews do not have to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid Hell.
Lumen Gentium 16 does not say that Jews in general do not have to convert into the Catholic Church. It does not say all Jews do not need to convert to avoid Hell.
Also no where in Nostra Aetate is it said that Jews do not have to convert.
So Lumen Gentium 16 and the Catechism of the Catholic Church 847,848 do not contradict the rigorist interpretation of the dogma outside the church there is no salvation. Only God knows who is saved with the baptism of desire. It is explicit only for God and implicit for us. Vatican Council II affirms extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
The same message of Vatican Council II is also there in other Magisterial texts.
Notification, N.7, Fr. Jacques Dupuis S.J, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican : All people need to be oriented into the Catholic Church and to be a part of her.
According to the ADL website:
Nostra Aetate, a declaration adopted in 1965 by the Second Vatican Council, repudiates anti-Semitism and the charge of "Christ-killer" against the Jewish people and lays the foundation for subsequent theological teachings about Judaism's ongoing vitality, self-understanding and God's irrevocable Covenant with the Jewish people made at Mt. Sinai....-Catholics Urged : Reject Anti-Jewish Teaching (Interfaith.ADL website)
The Bible and Jesus repudiates all hate and teaches us to love Jews and others. Jesus founded only one Church and made an everlasting Covenant. Catholics are the Chosen people of God.They are the People of the New Covenant and the fulfilment of the covenants God made with Abraham, Moses and the other prophets.
The ADL which is considered a major anti Semitic organisation, by Jewish rabbis in the USA and Israel, states:
The 1974 Vatican document "Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate, No. 4" calls on Catholics to appreciate Judaism in its own terms. The Guidelines state that: "Christians must therefore strive to acquire a better knowledge of the basic components of the religious tradition of Judaism; they must strive to learn by what essential traits Jews define themselves in the light of their own religious experience."
Judaism does not have one central authority and ADL does not represent conservative Jews, those opposed to Zionism.There is no one religious tradition of Judaism.The Jewish Left do not represent all Jews and they are opposed in public by an organisation representing over a thousand Rabbis.Rabbis also claim that the ADL is a source of anti-Semitism directed against innocent rank and file Jews. http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com /
The pro agnosticism, abortion and sodomy ADL states.
The 1985 "Notes on the Correct Way to Present Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church" directly contradicts Archbishop Bustros' contentions…
The 1985 Notes are not obligatory to be followed by all Catholics and it represents the opinion of one organisation supported by the political and military power of Israel and its allies. It uses the threat of war and sanctions against the Vatican, for Catholics to approve their agenda which is similar to that of the Masons.
Cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect for the Congregation for the Cause of the Saints, working for the beatification of Pope John Paul II has said inter religious dialogue should not exclude proclamation. (Amato: il dialogo non exclude l'nnuncio ' Stefano Andrini da Bologna Dec3.2009, Avvenire p.16 Catholica)
In an interview in the Italian daily Avvenire he emphasised the importance of Catholic Mission. He was interviewed at the Salesian University, Rome by Gianni Cardinale (Amato: non ce Chiesa senza missione, March 8, 2008, Saturday p. 21, Catholica, Avvenire). He quoted verbatim Ad Gentes 7 and Lumen Gentium 14.
The chosen people
As for the idea of the chosen people, it is clear, according to Christian theology and especially to St. Paul, that after Christ there is no longer one particular chosen people! With Christ and in Him all men and women of all countries are called to become children of God and unite in one body, the Body of Christ.
The chosen people was not a privilege, it was a mission: Israel was chosen by God in the Old Testament to live in holiness, to proclaim His name among the nations, and to prepare the coming of the Messiah. St Paul does not deny the role of the Jewish people in the history of salvation. He writes to the Romans: "I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised. Amen." (Rom. 9:1-5)
But in his letter to the Ephesians, he declares that Jesus has united all the peoples in one people and one body:
"Therefore, remember that at one time you, Gentiles by birth, called 'the uncircumcison' by those called 'the circumcision', which is done in the flesh by human hands, remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commands and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. So He came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father." (Eph 2:11-18)..-Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros on the website Jihad Watch
According to Vatican Council II Catholics are the Chosen People of God and everyone with no exception needs to enter the Catholic Church for salvation; everyone needs Catholic Faith and the baptism of water to be saved (Ad Gentes 7,Vatican Council II).
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