23 Q. In what does the
Body of the Church consist?
A. The
Body of the Church consists in her external and visible aspect, that is, in the
association of her members, in her worship, in her teaching-power and in her
external rule and government.
24 Q. To be saved, is it
enough to be any sort of member of the Catholic Church?
A. No,
to be saved it is not enough to be any sort of member of the Catholic Church;
it is necessary to be a living member.
25 Q. Who are the living
members of the Church?
A. The
living members of the Church are the just, and the just alone, that is, those
who are actually in the grace of God.
A. No, no one can be saved outside the
Catholic, Apostolic Roman Church, just as no one could be saved from the flood
outside the Ark of Noah, which was a figure of the Church.
29 Q. But if a man through no fault of his own is outside the
Church, can he be saved?
A. If he is outside the Church through no fault
of his, that is, if he is in good faith, and if he has received Baptism, or at
least has the implicit desire of Baptism; and if, moreover, he sincerely seeks
the truth and does God's will as best he can such a man is indeed separated
from the body of the Church, but is united to the soul of the Church and consequently
is on the way of salvation
11 Q. Who are they who
are outside the true Church?
A. Outside
the true Church are: Infidels, Jews, heretics, apostates, schismatics, and the
excommunicated.
12 Q. Who are infidels?
A. Infidels
are those who have not been baptised and do not believe in Jesus Christ,
because they either believe in and worship false gods as idolaters do, or
though admitting one true God, they do not believe in the Messiah, neither as
already come in the Person of Jesus Christ, nor as to come; for instance,
Mohammedans and the like.
13 Q. Who are the Jews?
A. The
Jews are those who profess the Law of Moses; have not received baptism; and do
not believe in Jesus Christ.
14 Q. Who are heretics?
A. Heretics
are those of the baptised who obstinately refuse to believe some truth revealed
by God and taught as an article of faith by the Catholic Church; for example,
the Arians, the Nestorians and the various sects of Protestants.
16 Q. Is Baptism
necessary to salvation?
A. Baptism
is absolutely necessary to salvation, for our Lord has expressly said:
"Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter
into the Kingdom of God."
17 Q. Can the absence of
Baptism be supplied in any other way?
A. The
absence of Baptism can be supplied by martyrdom, which is called Baptism of
Blood, or by an act of perfect love of God, or of contrition, along with the
desire, at least implicit, of Baptism, and this is called Baptism of Desire.
18 Q. To what is the
person baptised bound?
A. The
person baptised is bound to always profess the faith and observe the Law of
Jesus Christ and of His Church.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/catechism-of-st-pius-x-1286
In
the Catechism of Pope St. Pius X the passages in red are hypothetical and so are not practical exceptions for the
passages in blue which are orthodox and support the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla
salus, Ad Gentes 7 in Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic
Church 845-846.
Aaron Seng at Tradivox and Peter Kwasniewski at Whispers of Restoration would be wrongly interpreting the red as being an exception for the blue. So the conclusion is non traditional, irrational and heretical and schismatic.
- Lionel Andrades
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