Vatican Council II says extra ecclesiam nulla salus

Outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation is the teaching of the Catholic Church today and it depends upon how you interpret Vatican Council II.

If LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc refer to people visible and known who are saved outside the Church, then there is salvation outside the Church.Then ' no salvation outside the Church' is no more the teaching today.

But when LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc refer to only hypothetical and physically invisible people in 2018, then there is no known salvation outside the Church in reality.So then 'no salvation outside the Church' is still the teaching of the Catholic Church today as it was for centuries.

Do you'll know any one saved outside the Church over the last 50 years?

I do not.

So Vatican Council II is saying today that 'all' need 'faith and baptism' for 'salvation'(Ad Gentes 7),outside the Church there is no salvation and there are no known exceptions.

There are no practical exceptions to Ad Gentes 7 and the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.Literally we cannot see or meet any exception.

The baptism of desire, baptism of blood and being saved in invincible ignorance are not practical exceptions.Literally we do not know any such case.So a theology which suggests invisible people exist and are known and visible exceptions to the traditional teaching on no salvation outside the Church, is false.The New Theology is false theology.

The Catholic Church is like the Ark of Noah that saves in the Flood( CCC 845).It is the Pearl of Great Price(Matt.13:45-46).It is the Mystical Body of Jesus (1 Cor 12:12-31; Col 1:18; 2:18-20; Eph. 1:22-23; 3:19; 4:13). Vatican Council II says extra ecclesiam nulla salus as does the Athanasius Creed and Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441 in the Extraordinary Magisterium.There are no known exceptions to Jesus' teaching in John 3:5 and Mark 16:16.

-Lionel Andrades