Outside the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation

 

Most Holy Family Monastery

 

By far the best and most in-depth book that has ever been written on the Catholic Church’s infallible teaching on the necessity of the Catholic Faith and the Sacrament of Baptism for salvation.” (from many who have read it)

 

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Listing of Sections

 

Introduction

1.  The Chair of St. Peter on Outside the Church There is No Salvation – page 6

2.  The Keys of St. Peter and his Unfailing Faith – page 7

·         The Chair of St. Peter Speaks the Truth that Christ Himself Delivered – page 10

3.  Believe Dogma as it was once declared – page 11

4.  Other Popes on Outside the Church There is No Salvation – page 13

5.      Baptism is the only Way into the Church – page 16

6.      The One Church of the Faithful – page 17

7.      Subjection to the Church/Roman Pontiff – page 20

8.      The Sacrament of Baptism is Necessary for Salvation – page 22

9.      Water is Necessary for Baptism and John 3:5 is literal – page 23

10.  Infants Cannot Be Saved Without Baptism – page 26

11.   Those who Die in Original Sin or Mortal Sin Descend into Hell – page 28

12.   There is only One Baptism, Not Three – page 29

13.   The Athanasian Creed – page 31

14.  Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood – Erroneous traditions of Man – page 34

·         The Fathers are unanimous from the beginning on Water Baptism– page 35

·         Not all of the Fathers always remained consistent with their own affirmation and the universal Tradition on the absolute necessity of Water Baptism– page 41

·         The theory of baptism of blood – a tradition of man– page 43

·         The two earliest statements on baptism of blood– page 46

·         Unbaptized Saints? – page 49

·         St. Alban and his converted guard– page 53

·         Summarizing the Facts on Baptism of Blood– page 54

·         Miraculous Baptisms– page 55

·         The Theory of Baptism of Desire – a tradition of man– page 59

·          St.  Augustine– page 60

·          St. Ambrose– page 63

·          St. Gregory Nazianz– page 66

·          St. John Chrysostom– page 68

·          Liturgical Tradition and Apostolic Burial Tradition– page 69

·          Pope St. Siricius– page 70

·          The Middle Ages– page 72

·          St. Bernard– page 72

·         St. Thomas Aquinas – page 75

·         The Dogmatic Council of Vienne (1311-1312) – page 78

·         St. Thomas Aquinas rejected “Invincible Ignorance” – page 78

15.   Pope St. Leo the Great Ends the Debate – page 79

16.   Major Objections:

- Sess. 6, Chap. 4 of the Council of Trentpage 86

·         Aut used to mean “and” in the context of Councilspage 88

·         An interesting E-Mail regarding this passage of Trentpage 89

- The Dogma, Pope Pius IX and Invincible Ignorancepage 95

·         What about Pope Pius IX?page 97

·         Singulari Quadem (an allocution to the Cardinals)page 98

·         Quanto Conficiamur Moerorepage 100

·         Invincible Ignorance becomes a destructive heresy, obliterating the necessity of the Catholic Faith all over the worldpage 105

·         Other Popes and Saints against Invincible Ignorancepage 107

·         Sacred Scripture against Invincible Ignorancepage 109

·         Salvation for the “Invincibly Ignorant” reduced to its absurd principle page 112

·         Jesus Christ against Invincible Ignorancepage 114

- The “Private Interpretation” Objectionpage 115

17.  Some Other Objections – page 118

·         The Catechism of the Council of Trentpage 118

·         Sess. 7, Can. 4 on the Sacramentspage 123

·         Pope Innocent IIpage 124

·         Pope Innocent IIIpage 126

·         St. Alphonsus Liguoripage 128

·         Trent’s Teaching on the Necessity of Penance vs. its Teaching on the Necessity of Baptismpage 135

·         The Argument From Silencepage 138

·         The 1917 Codepage 139

·         The Argument that Baptism is impossible for some to receivepage 143

·         The Errors of Michael Du Baypage 143

·         Cornelius the Centurionpage 146

·         The Good Thief and the Holy Innocentspage 147

·         The “You Can’t Judge” Heresypage 148

·         The “Objective-Subjective” Heresypage 149

·         Bayside, Medjugorje and Other False Apparitionspage 151

·         The Brown Scapularpage 152

18.   The Soul of the Church Heresypage 153

19.   Baptism of Desire vs. the Universal and Constant Teaching of Theologianspage 156

·         Tuas Libenter and the so-called common consent of theologianspage 157

·         The very theologians they bring forward disprove their positionpage 162

·         Theologians are unanimous that only the water baptized are part of the Churchpage 164

·         Theologians unanimously define the Catholic Church as a union of Sacramentspage 167

·         Universal Tradition on Baptism affirmed even by modern heretical catechismspage 172

·         The Catechism attributed to Pope St. Pius Xpage 174

20.   Exultate Deo Also Ends the Debate page 177

21.   The New Testament is Clear that the Sacrament of Baptism is Indispensable for Salvation– page 179

·         The Great Commission: Matthew 28 and Mark 16– page 179

·         Romans 5 and 6– page 180

·         1 Corinthians 12:13– page 181

·         Galatians 3 – Faith is Baptism– page 183

·         Titus 3:5 – Baptism Saves Us– page 184

·         Ephesians 4:5– page 185

·         Acts 2 and the First Papal Sermon– page 186

·         1 Peter 3:20-21 – Water Baptism and the Ark– page 187

22.   Other Scriptural Considerations – page 188

·         The Baptism of Godpage 188

·         John 3:5 vs. John 6:54page 189

23.   All True Justice and the Causes of Justification – page 190

·         All true justice meets up with the sacraments– page 190

·         The instrumental and the efficient causes of Justification– page 191

24.   Catholics must believe and profess that the Sacramental System as a whole is necessary for salvation (de fide) – page 193

25.   St. Isaac Jogues and St. Francis Xavier Against Invincible Ignorance and on the Necessity of Baptism – page 194

26.   The Case of Father Feeney – page 205

27.   Protocol 122/49 – page 209

28.   Heresy Before Vatican II – page 217

29.   Mystici Corporis –