Outside the Church there is no salvation. This is the teaching of the Catholic Church today according to Vatican Council II (AG 7), the Catechism of the Catholic Church (845,846,1257), the Bible ( John 3:5) and Sacred Tradition ( Church Councils and Catechisms etc).

 

Outside the Church there is no salvation. This is the teaching of the Catholic Church today according to Vatican Council II (AG 7), the Catechism of the Catholic Church (845,846,1257), the Bible ( John 3:5) and Sacred Tradition ( Church Councils and Catechisms etc).

For me the baptism of desire refers to an invisible case in 2024. So LG 8, 14, 1, 5, 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc are always only hypothetical cases. They are not objective exceptions for Vatican Council II, the Catechisms, the Bible, the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus etc. There is true worship in only the Catholic Church (First Commandment) and there are no known exceptions in real life and none mentioned in Magisterial Documents.- Lionel Andrades