So when I say that In Heaven there are only Catholics I am following the Magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church, over centuries, now supported by Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church interpreted with only a rational premise

 

When I say ‘In Heaven there are only Catholics’ my citations are Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14, Catechism of the Catholic Church 845,846 etc. While for me Nostra Aetate 2 and Lumen Gentium 16 refer to hypothetical cases. They can only be invisible cases in 1949. Since if anyone was saved outside the Church, without faith and the baptism of water, it can only be known to God. We do not know any particular person saved as such.So the baptism of desire (LG 14) does not contradict the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Being saved in invincible ignorance does not contradict Ad Gentes 7 which says all need faith and baptism for salvation. There is nothing in Nostra Aetate to contradict the Athanasius Creed which says all need to be Catholic for salvation.

So salvation is open for all in general, Jesus died for all but to receive this salvation all need to accept Jesus in the Catholic Church and live the teachings of the only Church Jesus founded, and which the Bible refers to, as His Mystical Body.

So these two concepts must be understood. That salvation is universal and the Catholic Church is necessary for salvation ( Dominus Iesus 20).

A Catholic is someone who has been baptised with water and holds the Catholic faith.This is the Magisterial teaching of the Church. The reference is there in the Catechisms.

We do not know any Catholic who will be saved in invincible ignorance etc and without 'faith and baptism'(AG 7).

As I have mentioned earlier, on the blog 1Peter 5. The pro-SSPX writers are all interpreting the Catechisms with an irrational premise( invisible people are visble in 2024) while I choose a rational premise ( invisible people are invisible in 2024). Then they say, like the liberals that the Council is a break with Tradition.It is a break with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as ity was known to the missionaries in the 16th century, for example. They blame Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church and not their irrational premise (invisible cases of LG 8, NA 2 etc are visible).

So when I say that In Heaven there are only Catholics I am following the Magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church, over centuries, now supported by Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church interpreted with only a rational premise.- Lionel Andrades