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APOSTOLIC
DIGEST: BOOK II: The BOOK OF SALVATION
CHAPTER
ONE
THERE IS NO SALVATION
OUTSIDE THE ONE TRUE CHURCH
The Lord added daily to the Church those who would be saved. (Acts of the
Apostles 2:47)
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 does not have the Church for a
Mother. (Ven. Pope Pius IX)
There is only one universal Church of the faithful, outside which there is
absolutely no salvation. (IV Lateran Council)
The House of God is but one, and no one can have salvation except in the Church.
(St. Cyprian)
Whosoever would be saved, let him
come into this House. Let no one talk himself out of it; let no one deceive
himself: outside this House, that is, outside the Church, no one is saved.
(Origen)
It is a sin to believe there is
salvation outside the Catholic Church! (Ven. Pope Pius IX)
If any man does not enter the
Church, or if any man departs from it, he is far from the hope of life and
salvation. (Pope Pius XI)
There is no salvation outside the
Catholic Church. Anyone who resists this truth perishes. (St. Louis Marie de
Montfort)
Where is the road which leads us
to Jesus Christ? It is the Church. It is our duty to recall to everyone,
great and small, the absolute necessity we are under to have recourse to this
Church in order to work out our eternal salvation. (Pope St. Pius X)
There is but one plain known road.
When you wander from this, you are lost. You must be altogether within the
House of God, within the walls of salvation, to be sound and safe from
injury. If you wander and walk abroad ever so little, if you carelessly
thrust hand or foot out of the Ship, you shall be thrust forth: the door is
shut, the ocean roars, you are undone. (St. Edmund Campion)
Anyone who is out of the Ship is
walking a path not to Heaven, but to Hell. He is hurrying to the torment of
eternal death! (St. Fulgentius)
There is only one Catholic Church;
this we firmly believe and profess without qualification. Outside this Church
there is no salvation and no remission of sins. For at the time of the Deluge
there existed only one Ark, the figure of the one Church. And all things
outside this Ark perished. (Pope Boniface VIII)
It must be held as a matter of
faith that outside the Apostolic Roman Church no one can be saved, that the
Church is the only Ark of Salvation, and that whoever does not enter it will
perish in the Flood. (Ven. Pope Pius IX)
I profess that outside the Catholic Church no one is saved. (Pope Sylvester
II)
O glorious St. Peter, obtain for us a sincere loyalty to our Holy Mother the
Church; grant that we may ever remain most closely and sincerely united to
the Roman Pontiff who is the heir of thy faith and authority: the one, true,
visible head of the Catholic Church, that mystical Ark outside which there is
no salvation. (Pope Benedict XV)
REFERENCES
BOOK II, CHAPTER ONE
1. Pius IX:
"Singulari Quidem,"
PTC:222
2. IV
Lateran: DNZ:430
3. Cyprian:
UOC; CSL:214
4. Origen:
"On Josue," homily III:5; GCW; FOC p.134
5. Pius IX:
OUR GLORIOUS POPES, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cambridge, MA:
1955, p.168
6. Pius XI:
"Mortalium Animos,"
PTC:873
7. Louis
Marie: HMG p.107
8. Pius X:
"Supremi Apostolatus,"
PTC:654; "Jucunda Sane," PTC:668
9. Edmund:
LFS p.177
10. Fulgentius: "To Euthymius,
On the Remission of Sins," Bk. I, ch.19, no.2, PL 65:527; cf. also JUR
vol.III:2251a
11. Boniface
VIII: "Unam Sanctam,"
DNZ:468
12. Pius IX:
"Singulari Quadem,"
DNZ:1647
15.
Sylvester II: Profession of Faith made as Archbp. of Rheims, June, 991; cf.
LETTERS OF GERBERT, NY: Columbia University Press, 1961, p.224
16. Benedict
XV: RAC:484
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