Weekly Il Settimanale di Padre Pio says a non Catholic can be saved in invincible ignorance but we do not know of any such case, it is known only to God. There is exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church says Corrado Gnerre. This is an infallible teaching according to Venerable Pope Pius XII.
The October 2, 2011 issue of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate magazine Il Settimanale di Padre Pio has published the fourth and final part of the apologetical series by Corrado Gnerre, Dio e Cattolicismo!-Verita del Cattolicesimo e falsita delle altre religioni’.
Corrado Gnerre a professor at the Universita Europa di Roma, Rome clearly affirms the dogma extra ecclesiam nula salus and the necessity of all people, with no exception, to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation.(1) Outside the Church, he writes, there is no possibility of salvation.(2) He means de facto everyone on earth needs to enter the Church (Cantate Domino, Council of Florence), with Catholic Faith and the baptism of water (Lumen Gentium 14, Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II).Corrado Gnerre accepts conceptually, in principle (de jure), as a possibility known only to God, the salvation of a non Catholic who has not been a Catholic through no fault of his own.(3)
Corrado Gnerre writes that Pope Pius XII in the Letter of the Holy Office (Nov.1949) says ‘Now, among those things which the Church has always preached and will never cease to preach is contained also that infallible statement by which we are taught that there is no salvation outside the Church.’ We have an affirmation says Corrado Gnerre of the infallibility of the teaching extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
A person can be saved in invincible ignorance, the baptism of desire or following the natural law he accepts. We do not know of any person saved in invincible ignorance he says and this is only known to God. ('e questo lo può sapere solo il Signore'). He implies that since we do not know any case of a person saved in invincible ignorance, it is not an exception to the dogma. Since those saved with the baptism of desire or following the natural law are not explicitly known to us they are not an exception to the dogma. They do not contradict the infallible teaching that everyone needs to be a formal, visible member of the Catholic Church to go to Heaven. These cases are accepted only in principle, dejure, conceptually.They are not de facto known.We do not know personally any such case.
Corrado Gnerre writes that Pope Pius XII in the Letter of the Holy Office (Nov.1949) says ‘Now, among those things which the Church has always preached and will never cease to preach is contained also that infallible statement by which we are taught that there is no salvation outside the Church.’ We have an affirmation says Corrado Gnerre of the infallibility of the teaching extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
A person can be saved in invincible ignorance, the baptism of desire or following the natural law he accepts. We do not know of any person saved in invincible ignorance he says and this is only known to God. ('e questo lo può sapere solo il Signore'). He implies that since we do not know any case of a person saved in invincible ignorance, it is not an exception to the dogma. Since those saved with the baptism of desire or following the natural law are not explicitly known to us they are not an exception to the dogma. They do not contradict the infallible teaching that everyone needs to be a formal, visible member of the Catholic Church to go to Heaven. These cases are accepted only in principle, dejure, conceptually.They are not de facto known.We do not know personally any such case.
Since they are not defacto this Professor of Philosophy knows that they do not violate the Principle of Non Contradiction. The dogma refers to de facto cases in reality on earth and we do not know anyone on earth saved with the baptism of desire, in invincible ignorance or following the natural law. Neither do we know anyone presently saved who did not know the Gospel through no fault of this own.
Corrado Gnerre is married and has five children.He has written many books, contributes articles for magazines and can be heard on Radio Maria, Italy.His recent book Apologetica Vol 2. has been published by Il Settimanale di Padre Pio.
-Lionel Andrades
1.
Bisogna ribadire la Dottrina tradizionale della Chiesa in merito all’ esclusivismo salvificio cattolico : al di fuori della Chiesa non vi è possibilità di salvezza.
2.
Bisogna ribadire la Dottrina tradizionale della Chiesa in merito all’ esclusivismo salvificio cattolico : al di fuori della Chiesa non vi è possibilità di salvezza.
3.
Ricordando ovviamente anche la possible salvezza per chi non ha colpa a non essere cattolico.