The doctrine "extra ecclesiam nulla salus" (outside the Church there is no salvation) has been affirmed by numerous popes, ecumenical councils, and saints throughout Church history. Pope Innocent III, speaking at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, declared that "there is one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all is saved".
Pope Boniface VIII, in his 1302 Papal Bull Unam Sanctam, asserted that "it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff".
Pope Eugene IV, at the Council of Florence (1438–1445), proclaimed that those not living within the Catholic Church, including pagans, Jews, heretics, and schismatics, "cannot become participants in eternal life" and will go to "everlasting fire" unless they join the Church before death.
Pope Pius IX emphasized the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation in his 1849 encyclical Nostis et Nobiscum.
The Council of Trent, under Pope Pius IV, also declared that "this true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved".
Numerous saints and Church Fathers, including St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Robert Bellarmine, have echoed this teaching, with Aquinas stating that "there is no entering into salvation outside the Church, just as in the time of the deluge there was none outside the ark, which denotes the Church".
I don't need salvation in the next life. I need the world to be fixed in this life. And that sure as fuck isn't going to happen with a religion that puts itself above blood.
Before I was born there were plenty of periods in human history when the world wasn't nearly as fucked as it is today. I'd rather concentrate on perhaps creating paradise in this life than paradise in the after life for which I have to worship a Jew.
The doctrine "extra ecclesiam nulla salus" (outside the Church there is no salvation) has been affirmed by numerous popes, ecumenical councils, and saints throughout Church history. Pope Innocent III, speaking at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, declared that "there is one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all is saved". Pope Boniface VIII, in his 1302 Papal Bull Unam Sanctam, asserted that "it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff". Pope Eugene IV, at the Council of Florence (1438–1445), proclaimed that those not living within the Catholic Church, including pagans, Jews, heretics, and schismatics, "cannot become participants in eternal life" and will go to "everlasting fire" unless they join the Church before death. Pope Pius IX emphasized the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation in his 1849 encyclical Nostis et Nobiscum. The Council of Trent, under Pope Pius IV, also declared that "this true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved". Numerous saints and Church Fathers, including St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Robert Bellarmine, have echoed this teaching, with Aquinas stating that "there is no entering into salvation outside the Church, just as in the time of the deluge there was none outside the ark, which denotes the Church".
I don't need salvation in the next life. I need the world to be fixed in this life. And that sure as fuck isn't going to happen with a religion that puts itself above blood.
It wasn't "fixed" before you were born and it won't after you're dead. You are not the protagonist of the universe.
Before I was born there were plenty of periods in human history when the world wasn't nearly as fucked as it is today. I'd rather concentrate on perhaps creating paradise in this life than paradise in the after life for which I have to worship a Jew.
What periods of history were these where they weren't strictly governed by theological morals?
I wonder if the various branches of Orthodoxy say similar. Or which Catholics thought they were going where at the time of the Avignon papacy.
And yes Vatican II is trash. Tridentine Mass FTW.