We have to be careful on how we interpret Vatican Council II since there was a heretical group active at the Council. I am referring to Cardinal Richard Cushing and the Jesuits at Boston who believed there were known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, even though they could not name any of these exceptions in person.
A common error people make in the interpretation is : not every one needs to enter the Church but except those who know.
It is true hypothetically, in theory that ' those who know' and did not enter the Catholic Church will be condemned(LG 14) . However this line can also be a ' dummy', dead wood. Since only God knows who knows or who does not know and will be saved or not saved.So it is irrelevant to the traditional teaching which says all (AG 7) in general need to be visible members of the Catholic Church for salvation, with visible 'faith and baptism'(AG 7). All in the present times, 2013, and not those who know or do not know of whom we know nothing, to be able to judge either.
-Lionel Andrades
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