shadowlands said...
I am glad Catholic Mission made his comment Father Tim because it made you reply back with a Church teaching I was not previously aware of, but has cheered me up no end!
"Now, among those things which the Church has always preached and will never cease to preach is contained also that infallible statement by which we are taught that there is no salvation outside the Church."
The letter later says: "Therefore, that one may obtain eternal salvation, it is not always required that he be incorporated into the Church actually as a member, but it is necessary that at least he be united to her by desire and longing.
However, this desire need not always be explicit, as it is in catechumens; but when a person is involved in invincible ignorance God accepts also an implicit desire, so called because it is included in that good disposition of soul whereby a person wishes his will to be conformed to the will of God."
What Good News!
Lionel
It has cheered you up since you assume that implicit desire is an exception to 'there is no salvation outside the Church'and so it is not required that all presently on earth be 'incorporated actually as a member'.
'That one may obtain eternal salvation' we accept ONLY in principle. These cases are personally unknown to us on earth.
So if the Letter or anyone assumes that they are known to us and so every one does not need to be incorporated today as an actual member then they make a mistake.
It's an objective factual oversight since we do not know any of these cases on earth.
-Lionel Andrades
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