Pope Pius IX: Fuller Teaching on "No Salvation Outside The Church"

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Pope Pius IX: Fuller Teaching on "No Salvation Outside The Church"

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Catholic Principles on Ecumenism (Vatican II, Decree on Ecumenism) (Matthew Tan Yew Hock)
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Already Rebutted http://www.antioch.com.sg/cgi-bin/Agora-Pub/get/expressions/95/3/3/1.html (Christopher Yip)
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Folly of Self-Interpretation, and Careless and Incomplete Reading (Matthew Tan Yew Hock)
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Already rebutted again! (eom) (Christopher Yip)
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A rebuttal that is not. (Matthew Tan Yew Hock)
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You must be referring to YOUR own. (Christopher Yip)
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The Text and Context: Unam Sanctam. (No Salvation Outside The Church, Proper Interpretation - cont'd) (Matthew Tan Yew Hock)
Date: 2001, Apr 22
From: Matthew Tan Yew Hock MatthewTan

Note teaching on invincible ignorance.
Now this is Pope Pius IX, the teacher also of Papal Syllabus. It's time for Christopher to take a look at the fuller teaching of Pope Pius IX.
Protestants are joined to the Catholic Church through the Holy Spirit and Baptism, and are in imperfect COMMUNION with the Catholic Church. Protestants in general are ignorant of authentic Catholic teachings due to misinformation, distortions, misrepresentations, lacking in certainty of knowledge, etc. In most cases, but not all, Protestants are not in the visible confines of Catholic Church because of ignorance. But still, they are joined to the Catholic Church, spiritually -- except those who oppose the Catholic Church even in their spirit.
The teaching is similar to bible teaching: No salvation Except Jesus. Yet, we hold that those who have not heard of Jesus may be saved through obedience of their conscience and doing God's will as they know it. (Rom 2, Matt 7). This is an ancient Catholic teaching that goes all the way back to Justin Martyr, St Cyprian, St Ambrose, St Augustine, Pope Gregory I, etc.
I have made it very clear.
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POPE PIUS IX (1846 - 1878 AD)
"By Faith it is to be firmly held that outside the Apostolic Roman Church none can achieve salvation. This is the only ark of salvation. He who does not enter into it will perish in the flood. Nevertheless equally certainly it is to be held that those who suffer from invincible ignorance of the true religion are not for this reason guilty in the eyes of the Lord."
"The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman: unique, the Chair founded on Peter...Outside her fold is to be found neither the true faith nor eternal salvation, for it is impossible to have God for a Father if one has not the Church for a Mother."
POPE JOHN PAUL II (1978 - present)
"The mystery of salvation is revealed to us and is continued and accomplished in the Church, and from this genuine and single source it reaches the whole world....We have to be conscious of and absorb this fundamental and revealed truth, contained in the phrase consecrated by tradition: 'There is no salvation outside the Church.' From her alone there flows surely and fully the life-giving force destined, in Christ and in His Spirit, to renew the whole of humanity, and therefore directing every human being to become a part of the Mystical Body of Christ."
"It is a revealed truth that there is salvation only and exclusively in Christ. The Church, inasmuch as it is the Body of Christ, is simply an instrument of this salvation...People are saved through the Church, they are saved in the Church, but they always are saved by the grace of Christ....This is the authentic meaning of the well-known statement 'Outside the Church there is no salvation.'"