GOD WANTS ONLY ONE CHURCH- Marcellino D'Ambrosio Ph.d

The Only Way -

What really ticked off the ancient Romans still ticks people off today—Christians have the “arrogance” to claim that Jesus is the only savior. This Sunday's readings back this idea, plus the even more offensive idea that God wants only one church, but also accounts for the fact that both truth and godly people are to be found outside the visible boundaries of the Church... -Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.

http://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/library_article/922/Way__Truth__and_Life___Jesus_Only.html

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To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son's Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. The Church is "the world reconciled." She is that bark which "in the full sail of the Lord's cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world." According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from the flood.- Catechism of the Catholic Church 845