Actually it depends on which of the many thousands of denominations you have encountered. Each one has a different view (allbeit that they are all erroneous and similarly related).
The statements of the vatican are nothing short of a denial of Catholic teaching.
According to this new teaching of the Vatican, abortion would seem to be a good thing, since they are all going to heaven, why chance that child growing up and losing salvation? Why not just kill it and send it to the Father?
This is an assertion that everyone is immaculately conceived, and that baptism is pointless. This is an attack on the immaculate conception. What then is the point in the Catholic faith?
Council of Trent, Session VII, Canon IV On the Sacraments in general: "If any one saith, that the sacraments of the New Law are not necessary unto salvation, but superfluous; and that, without them... men obtain of God... the grace of justification;-though all (the sacraments) are not indeed necessary for every individual; let him be anathema"
Council of Trent, Sess. VII, Can. V, On Baptism: "If any one saith, that baptism is free, that is, not necessary unto salvation; let him be anathema.