Sunday, May 3, 2015

Every one needs to be a card carrying member of the Catholic Church today for salvation


Vatican Council II tells us all need to be card carrying members of the Church. Where does it say it ? Here.
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. -Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II

This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism(124) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. -Lumen Gentium 14, Vatican Council II

They are fully incorporated in the society of the Church who, possessing the Spirit of Christ accept her entire system and all the means of salvation given to her, and are united with her as part of her visible bodily structure and through her with Christ, who rules her through the Supreme Pontiff and the bishops. The bonds which bind men to the Church in a visible way are profession of faith, the sacraments, and ecclesiastical government and communion. -Lumen Gentium 14, Vatican Council II.
Affirm the dogma on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church by citing these three passages.
Every one needs to convert into the Catholic Church today. The word today is very important.It is not abstract.One can only convert in the present times for salvation and not in the past or the future.
Similarly there can nonly be exceptions in the present times,today.
We can never know an exception in the present times.Humanly it is not possible. These cases are known only to God.
Since these persons would be in Heaven we cannot see or meet them.
So there cannot be any known exception in Vatican Council II to all needing  'faith and baptism'  for salvation.
There cannot be a known exception to all needing to be formal members of the Catholic Church for salvation i.e ' They are fully incorporated in the society of the Church who, possessing the Spirit of Christ accept her entire system and all the means of salvation given to her, and are united with her as part of her visible bodily structure...
Evangelise!-based on Vatican Council II. This was the appeal of Cardinal Angelo Amato, when he was the Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican.
Cardinal Amato who is presently the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints specifically mentioned Ad Gentes 7 and Lumen Gentium 14 in an interview with the daily Avvenire.
Vatican Council II indicates that for salvation today one needs to get ones name on the Catholic parish register. 
-Lionel Andrades




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