Roman Catholic can we save all people
Roman Catholic can we save all people Question: I can not believe God would condemn souls to damnation who never heard the Christian message. What does my Church say? Answer: The Catechism of the Catholic Church : “Outside the Church there is no salvation” This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation. “Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men” (CCC 847-848). Vatican II, Lumen Gentium : Those also can atta...