This quote by the late Orestes Brownson should be in the Fr. Feeney Ghetto, simply because it is a vindication of Fr. Feeney in my estimation.  I know that some on Cathinfo seem to think that Brownson defended some watered down theology of Baptism by Desire, but not so.  I am typing out this article for my Brownson site, and, Brownson settles the question as far as the matter goes:

 "She (the Church) is not merely a congregation of individuals holding certain relations to one another, but is to Christians what the natural human race is to natural men, and has the relation to them that the race or humanity has to individuals, and they live by its life as individual men and women in the natural order live by the life of humanity.  You may know and assent to all Catholic doctrine, you may comprehend all mysteries; and in your life keep the whole law of nature, or practice with the most scrupulous fidelity all the natural virtues, and yet have no lot or part in the regeneration.  You are a natural man, worthy of all respect in the natural order; but he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than you.  You must be born into the kingdom, into the regeneration, into the new or supernaturalized humanity, or you cannot live its life.  Hence our Lord says, “Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.”  Hence the reason of the dogma, extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, or, out of the communion of the Church, no one can ever be saved, that is, no one can ever attain the supernatural destiny or beatitude of regenerated humanity.  To maintain the contrary, would be as absurd as to pretend that a creature, never a man in the natural order, can share the natural beatitude of a human being.  As to the punishment of those who die out of the communion of the Church, it will be meted out according to their deserts, and  will be neither greater nor less than in strict justice they by their deliberate acts have merited; but common sense impugns the idea of their sharing the rewards of a humanity of which they have never been members, and whose life they have never lived."  "Christianity and the Church Identical: A reply to a Universalist," 1857