It's a lie for a Catholic medical surgeon to claim he and all of us can see the dead on earth, with the naked eye.A Catholic nurse or doctor must not suggest that there are visible cases of the dead saved who are now in Heaven.Also priests and nuns working at hospitals must not reject the traditional teaching on other religions and communities, by claiming there are known exceptions in the present times. For some of them this would be telling a lie, even after being informed.
Many of the religious and lay people working in hospitals without thinking say those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are exceptions to the traditional, centuries old teaching on exclusive salvation in Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church.
This is the only Church in which all need to enter visibly, with 'faith and baptism' (AG 7).
This is the only Church in which all need to enter visibly, with 'faith and baptism' (AG 7).
The mistake of their being known exceptions to all needing faith and baptism to go to heaven has been made on the website of theVicariate of Rome. It is an error made by the Vicariate's department for the Pastoral Care of the Sick.Catholics in medical institutions and related organisations must be informed that there are no exceptions listed in Vatican Council II or the Catechism of the Catholic Church.So pastorally and doctrinally the Catholic understanding on non Catholic religions and communities and churches has not changed.
We are asked by Jesus and the Church to love and serve all people and not to deny the faith. God has no favourites personally.Jesus sacrificed Himself, he offered Himself on the Cross, He died to save all people.Salvation in potential is available for all.To receive it one must enter the Catholic Church in 2014 (John 3:5, Mark 16:16, Dominus Iesus 20, Catechism of the Catholic Church 845,846, Ecclesia di Eucarestia etc). However with one mortal sin not confessed in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, a Catholic can lose this salvation completely and eternally.
Non Christians have Original Sin and they commit mortal sins.Christians commit mortal sins and do not have access to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the Eucharist. Spiritually the soul is in disease in both cases.
For salvation it is necessary to believe in Jesus. However the new comer to the faith must then live the teachings of Jesus as taught in the Catholic Church for centuries.It is not enough just to believe in Jesus.
St.Ignatiius of Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises ask us to meditate on Hell where there are people who knew about God and believed in God but did not live the teachings of God.They sinned and lost their salvation.
For salvation it is necessary to believe in Jesus. However the new comer to the faith must then live the teachings of Jesus as taught in the Catholic Church for centuries.It is not enough just to believe in Jesus.
St.Ignatiius of Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises ask us to meditate on Hell where there are people who knew about God and believed in God but did not live the teachings of God.They sinned and lost their salvation.
-Lionel Andrades
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