Do they assume that CCC 846 is contradicted by CCC 847 and 848 ?
The post was wiped off. There was no answer.
-Lionel Andrades
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
"Outside the Church there is no salvation"
846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
- Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the 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, 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.336
- 847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:
- Those 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 - those too may achieve eternal salvation.
848 "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men." 
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Lionel,
Save for a mere remnant there are very few Catholics at any and all levels whether it be cleric or laymen that truly want, can or do want to understand correctly, No Salvation Outside the Catholic Church, as you do.
This is the crux of the punishment we find ourselves in. The Church is denying and persecuting Jesus just as Peter did when he denied Jesus three times. I am still shocked that you do not understand that all but a mere few believe that there is Salvation Outside the Catholic Church. I admire, pray and encourage you to keep up the good fight.
JMJ,
George Brenner
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