Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Pope Pius IX on Converting Those Outside the
Church (Quanto Conficiamur Moerore)
This time in Church history is an important time to recover
the documents of the pre-Vatican II popes. In reading Pope
Pius IX's encyclical 'Quanto Conficiamur Moerore' (On
Promotion Of False Doctrines) we see the clear teaching of
the Church concerning salvation for those outside the
Church as well as the necessity of their conversion. When
is the last time you have heard this preached? Below are
paragraphs six through nine of the document. We must
as Catholics be prepared to deal with the modernists
now found in every corner of the Church trying to
deceive the faithful.
the documents of the pre-Vatican II popes. In reading Pope
Pius IX's encyclical 'Quanto Conficiamur Moerore' (On
Promotion Of False Doctrines) we see the clear teaching of
the Church concerning salvation for those outside the
Church as well as the necessity of their conversion. When
is the last time you have heard this preached? Below are
paragraphs six through nine of the document. We must
as Catholics be prepared to deal with the modernists
now found in every corner of the Church trying to
deceive the faithful.
6. Now, since our Apostolic Office demands we carefully
and zealously defend the cause of the Church committed
to us by Christ, we condemn those who attack and despise
the Church itself, its sacred laws, ministers, and this
Apostolic See. Hence, with this letter, once more we
confirm, proclaim and condemn totally and singly that
which in many consistorial allocutions and in our other
Letters we have been forced to deplore, declare and
condemn.[3]
7. Here, too, our beloved sons and venerable brothers,
it is again necessary to mention and censure a very
grave error entrapping some Catholics who believe that
it is possible to arrive at eternal salvation although living
in error and alienated from the true faith and Catholic
unity. Such belief is certainly opposed to Catholic teaching.
There are, of course, those who are struggling with
invincible ignorance about our most holy religion. Sincerely
observing the natural law and its precepts inscribed by
God on all hearts and ready to obey God, they live honest
lives and are able to attain eternal life by the
efficacious virtue of divine light and grace. Because
God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds,
hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness
and clemency do not permit anyone at all
who is not guilty of deliberate sin to suffer eternal
punishments.
8. Also well known is the Catholic teaching that no
one can be saved outside the Catholic Church. Eternal
salvation cannot be obtained by those who oppose the
authority and statements of the same Church and are
stubbornly separated from the unity of the Church and
also from the successor of Peter, the Roman
Pontiff, to whom “the custody of the vineyard has been
committed by the Savior.”[4] The words of Christ are
clear enough: “If he refuses to listen even to the Church,
let him be to you a Gentile and a tax collector;”[5] “He
who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you, rejects
me, and he who rejects me, rejects him who sent
me;”[6] “He who does not believe will be
condemned;”[7] “He who does not believe is already
condemned;”[8] “He who is not with me is against me,
and he who does not gather with me scatters.”[9] The
Apostle Paul says that such persons are “perverted
and self-condemned;”[10] the Prince of the Apostles
calls them “false teachers . . . who will secretly bring
in destructive heresies, even denying the Master. . .
bringing upon themselves swift destruction.”[11]
9. God forbid that the children of the Catholic
Church should even in any way be unfriendly to
those who are not at all united to us by the same
bonds of faith and love. On the contrary, let
them be eager always to attend to their needs
with all the kind services of Christian charity,
whether they are poor or sick or suffering any
other kind of visitation. First of all, let them
rescue them from the darkness of the errors
into which they have unhappily fallen and strive
to guide them back to Catholic truth and to
their most loving Mother who is ever holding
out her maternal arms to receive them
lovingly back into her fold.
Thus, firmly founded in faith, hope, and
charity and fruitful in every good work,
they will gain eternal salvation.
and zealously defend the cause of the Church committed
to us by Christ, we condemn those who attack and despise
the Church itself, its sacred laws, ministers, and this
Apostolic See. Hence, with this letter, once more we
confirm, proclaim and condemn totally and singly that
which in many consistorial allocutions and in our other
Letters we have been forced to deplore, declare and
condemn.[3]
7. Here, too, our beloved sons and venerable brothers,
it is again necessary to mention and censure a very
grave error entrapping some Catholics who believe that
it is possible to arrive at eternal salvation although living
in error and alienated from the true faith and Catholic
unity. Such belief is certainly opposed to Catholic teaching.
There are, of course, those who are struggling with
invincible ignorance about our most holy religion. Sincerely
observing the natural law and its precepts inscribed by
God on all hearts and ready to obey God, they live honest
lives and are able to attain eternal life by the
efficacious virtue of divine light and grace. Because
God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds,
hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness
and clemency do not permit anyone at all
who is not guilty of deliberate sin to suffer eternal
punishments.
8. Also well known is the Catholic teaching that no
one can be saved outside the Catholic Church. Eternal
salvation cannot be obtained by those who oppose the
authority and statements of the same Church and are
stubbornly separated from the unity of the Church and
also from the successor of Peter, the Roman
Pontiff, to whom “the custody of the vineyard has been
committed by the Savior.”[4] The words of Christ are
clear enough: “If he refuses to listen even to the Church,
let him be to you a Gentile and a tax collector;”[5] “He
who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you, rejects
me, and he who rejects me, rejects him who sent
me;”[6] “He who does not believe will be
condemned;”[7] “He who does not believe is already
condemned;”[8] “He who is not with me is against me,
and he who does not gather with me scatters.”[9] The
Apostle Paul says that such persons are “perverted
and self-condemned;”[10] the Prince of the Apostles
calls them “false teachers . . . who will secretly bring
in destructive heresies, even denying the Master. . .
bringing upon themselves swift destruction.”[11]
9. God forbid that the children of the Catholic
Church should even in any way be unfriendly to
those who are not at all united to us by the same
bonds of faith and love. On the contrary, let
them be eager always to attend to their needs
with all the kind services of Christian charity,
whether they are poor or sick or suffering any
other kind of visitation. First of all, let them
rescue them from the darkness of the errors
into which they have unhappily fallen and strive
to guide them back to Catholic truth and to
their most loving Mother who is ever holding
out her maternal arms to receive them
lovingly back into her fold.
Thus, firmly founded in faith, hope, and
charity and fruitful in every good work,
they will gain eternal salvation.
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