Vicars of Christ: A History of the Popes by Charles A. Coulombe

Author:Charles A. Coulombe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Tumblar House
Published: 2014-05-10T06:00:00+00:00

It [the Church] firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that none of those who are not within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart “into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41), unless before the end of their life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the Ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the Sacraments of the Church of benefit for Salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church. [Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441, Denzinger, 1957 p. 714].

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