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Has the Church Changed Its Teaching on No Salvation Outside the Church?

by Brian Kelly October 26, 2011

Brother André Marie introduced me to the Called to Communion: Reformation Meets Rome website this morning. The writers for the site are all young scholars who have converted to the Catholic Faith during the past decade. One of them, Tom Brown, penned a commentary on an intriguing article by a Protestant professor, Dr. David VanDrunen, that appeared in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s periodical, New Horizons. … More →

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Baptism of Desire: Its Origin and Abandonment in the Thought of Saint Augustine

by Brian Kelly April 28, 2011

Perish the thought that a person predestined to eternal life could be allowed to end this life without the sacrament of the mediator. (Saint Augustine) This article will focus on the question of explicit baptism of desire — as it was understood by most western doctors of the Church from the time of Saint Augustine (+430) until Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (+1787), the last … More →

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A Letter to Bedfordshire (in Response to Mr. Thomas Sparks)

by Brother André Marie September 22, 2006

(240K PDF version of this same article. ) Introduction. Mr. Thomas Sparks, of Bedfordshire, England, has posted an “Open Letter” to me on his web site. The present offering is my reply.

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Reply to a Liberal: Conclusion

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

Modern liberalism, which makes membership in the Catholic Church unnecessary for salvation, undermines something more than the dogma that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. In postulating the existence of an Invisible Church, or in suggesting that membership in the Visible Church can be invisible and purely internal, liberals are actually, whether they realize it or not, endangering the doctrine of the Incarnation.

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Reply to a Liberal Part III: Baptism

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

Contents : 1. Baptism is Absolutely Necessary for Salvation. 2. Is Baptism by Itself Sufficient for Salvation? 3. Baptism of Blood and Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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Reply to a Liberal Part II: Outside the Church There is No Salvation

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

Contents : 1. Explicit Faith in the Catholic Church and in Her Teaching is Necessary for Salvation. 2. there Two Kinds of Membership in the Church? 3. Can a Person Who Remains Separated from the Church be Saved? 4. Are Protestants Formal Heretics? 5. Pope Pius IX’s Real Teaching with Regard to the Salvation of Non-Catholics 6. Concerning the Question of Ignorance

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Reply to a Liberal Part I: Answer to Five Minor Points

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

I It seems to be a habit of liberal theologians to give more weight to the opinions of theologians of their own type than to the infallible definitions of the Church. Some of them never quote the Scriptures and the Councils; others do, usually by way of pious preamble.

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Reply to a Liberal – Introduction

by Raymond Karam February 7, 2006

We have been asked many times to explain what we mean by the term “liberal Catholic.” Articles in each issue of From the Housetops have referred to these “liberals,” accusing them of religious indifferentism, or lack of concern for the Faith, of absence of loyalty to the Church, to the Pope, to the officially appointed teachers of Catholic doctrine, and, at times, of open heresy.

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Desire, Justification, and Salvation at the Council of Trent

by Br. David Mary, M.I.C.M., Tert. May 2, 2005

Liberal theologians for a long time have been attempting to foist upon docile Catholics the idea that the theological expression baptism of desire is an unassailable doctrine approved by the highest Church authority and taught officially by the Solemn Magisterium. That this expression has been around for a long time nobody denies, but that it has been officially taught by the Church is simply not … More →

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The Fate of Unbaptized Infants In Light of the Universal Necessity of Baptism

by Mike Malone April 25, 2005

In reply to the question concerning the salvation of aborted infants by virtue of a vicarious “baptism of desire” on the part of their parents or by “baptism of blood” on either their part or “on the part of the Church,” it can only be said that such is absolutely impossible. The Council of Trent infallibly defined the necessity of the Sacrament of Baptism, and … More →

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Speaking of How to Pray

by Br. Thomas Mary Sennott, M.I.C.M. April 25, 2005

This article consists of a few loose ends: (1) a book review, (2) a letter to an editor, and (3) another book review. All are closely related in subject matter.

Posted in Articles, Book Reviews, Catechesis and Fundamentals, Mass and the Liturgy, Outside the Church there is no Salvation, Theology | Tagged Anonymous Christian, Apophatic, Baptism of desire, Bertrand de Margerie, Bishop Fitzpatrick, Cataphatic, Dante Alighieri, David G. Kennedy, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, Father Leonard Feeney, Father William Most, Ignotus, Interior Castle, Jerome P. Theisen, Karl Rahner, Lollards, Orestes Brownson, Pelagianism, Pius IX, Raymond Brown, Saint Justin Martyr, Saint Pius X, Saint Teresa of Avila, Urs von Balthasar, Vermont Catholic, Walter Hilton | Leave a comment

Doctrinal Summary: ‘Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus’

by Br. Thomas Mary Sennott, M.I.C.M. March 16, 2005

Editor’s Introduction: This “Doctrinal Summary” is an appendix to a work to be published at a future date: Father Feeney’s Doctrinal Case. The work is intended as a supplement to the larger volume by Brother Thomas Mary, They Fought the Good Fight.

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Father Feeney and Catholic Doctrine — A Reply to Verbum

by Br. Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. January 31, 2005

This article was published in February, 1987 as a Res Fidei monograph. The Verbum in question (#24) is no longer available online. However, the offending article can be read here.