https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/catechism-of-st-pius-x-1286
The Catholic Church is saying that in general Muslims are lost without Catholic faith and the baptism of water. It is the same for Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists etc. It is the same for other Christian denominations. If anyone is saved in another religion, in Heaven, he or she is a Catholic. In Heaven there are only Catholics (Ad Gentes 7-all need faith and baptism for salvation), who are there without mortal sin on their soul. Mohammad, the Muslim prophet, died without faith and the baptism of water. According to the Catholic Church, in Vatican Council II, interpreted rationally, he is lost forever. Vatican Council II also says that those who know about Jesus and the Church and yet do not enter cannot be saved.
Outside the Church there is no salvation- Catechism of the Catholic Church 846.
Mohammad knew, and yet he founded a new religion. Dante saw him suffering in Inferno.
We can no more
cite the red hypothetical passages in Vatican Council II , to suggest that
Mohammad was a known exception, for the exclusivist-salvation teaching.There are no known exceptions in 1965-2023 for Ad Gentes 7, which is in harmony with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
and the Council of Florence (1442).
This is the
official teaching of the Catholic Church in Magisterial Documents interpreted
rationally, i.e. 'the red is not an exception for the blue'. This has been the
teaching of the popes and saints over the centuries who affirmed the
traditional strict interpretation of the dogma EENS. They interpreted the
baptism of desire (BOD) and being saved in invincible ignorance (I.I), as being only invisible.
So BOD and I.I did not contradict the dogma EENS for St. Thomas Aquinas, St.
Anthony Marie Claret…This has been the Biblical teaching ( John 3:5, Mark
16:16), now corroborated by Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the
Catholic Church and all the other
Catechisms, interpreted rationally only.
This is the official teaching of the Catholic Church however the political interpretation of Vatican Council II, approved by the Jewish Left (ADL, SPLC etc), is to cite Nostra Aetate-but, we know Nostra Aetate nowhere contradicts Ad Gentes 7 and the Fourth Lateran Council.
Are all religions, with their respective forms of worship, equally pleasing to God?
No. Only the religion established by God and fulfilled in Christ, with its divinely revealed worship, is supernatural, holy, and pleasing to God. All other religions are inherently false, and their forms of worship pernicious, or at least unavailing for eternal life.- Credo, Catechism of Bishop Athanasius Schneider
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2023/10/bishops-athanasius-schneiders-credo-is.html
So after the Regensburg Address when Pope Benedict cited Nostra Aetate, he should also have quoted Ad Gentes 7.
Nostra Aetate acknowledges the good and holy things in other religions, the ‘great religions’, whose adherents must be respected. However Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14 and the Catechism of the Catholic Church 845, 846, 1257 tell us that their religions are not paths to salvation.- Lionel Andrades