Again, you are having serious troubles with the English language. The quote from Pope Pius IX speaks of somebody attaining everlasting life and not suffering eternal punishments because he is invincibly ignorant.The person has both DIED and NOT been damned. Wake up brother!
No, it is you who have serious trouble in reading Cattate Domino and the Athanasian Creed, where no exception is made for invinciblr ignorance. All who die as pagans go to hell (Cantate Domino) and explicit fairth in Jesus Christ and the Trinity is absolutely necessary for salvation (Athanasian Creed). You refuse to address botjh of these infallible statements because they totally refute your heretical Anonymous Christian idea.
Imagine for a moment that we could be present at the judgment of the nine-year-old boy I spoke of. If the Feeneyites are correct, here is how the conversation would go between God and the boy:
"Dear young boy, I created your soul to my image and likeness, to be with me in heaven forever after your life on earth. In your short 9 year life on earth you believed in Me, followed the Natural Law, and had perfect contrition for your sins. Had you known about the Catholic Church, you would have certainly been baptized immediately. Unfortunately I placed you in the home of non-Catholic parents, and though it was not your fault in the least that you didn't have a chance to find out about the Catholic Church during your short life, I must follow the letter of the law and damn you to hell for all eternity because you didn't get baptized with water. I know you were invincibly ignorant and did all you possibly could to please Me with the knowledge you had, but you are just one of the unlucky ones and must be punished for all eternity."
So now you go to emotionalism, like all Cushingites. Underlying the above monologue is the assumption that it was impossible for God to provide faith and baptism to this boy, which is of course rejection of divine providence. If he was of good will, seeked truth about God and followed the natural law God would have granted him means to learn the faith and receive baptism as St. Thomas Aquinas teaches. Divine providence never fails.
Cushingites don't like this since it does not give them opportunity to excuse millions of non-Catholics to open them way to salvation without faith in Christ and without baptism.
Plus, as St. Augustine says, it is possible that God placed in pagan nations those about whom he knew they would reject the Gospel had they heard it. This would be God's mercy, because by explicitly rejecting the Gospel they would be much more culpable and suffer greater pains in hell.
You are creating your own Catholicism on the fly here. Below is the quote from Pope Pius IX, and I'm adding what you are claiming in red, in the appropriate location. Now read through the quote with your claim added and look at what insane gibberish the paragraph becomes. The paragraph then states the invincibly ignorant are able to obtain eternal life through conversion to Catholicism (as if a Pope would need to mention such a thing), then the Pope adds no one guilty of deliberate sin suffers eternal punishment... WHY would he make this final statement if the person has already converted to Catholicism? You illegally add your own words to the quote from Pope Pius IX, and it absolutely destroys its meaning. Your argument is over. I recommend you hire an English tutor.
Not at all, I just read text in context. Pope Pius IX emphasizes God's providence and his care for people by saying that even those who are invincibly ignorant (i.e. could not learn the faith under normal circuмstances) can be led to Catholicism "through divine light and grace" (which of course includes conversion), because, as he says in the next paragraph, there is absolutely no salvation outside the Church and they need to enter the Church to be saved. The point is that God is capable to grant conversion and faith even to invincibly ignorant if they are of good will, so they do not suffer eternal punishment.
Again, here is Catholic dogma which you reject:
"The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches
that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jєωs, and heretics, and schismatics, can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire "which was prepared for the devil, and his angels," (Mt. 25:41)" (Cantate Domino, Council of Florence)
It is impossible for thos who die as pagans to be saved, period (no exception is made for pagans in invincible ignorance).
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Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. (...) He therefore that will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity. Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting Salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man." (Athanasian Creed)
Whosoever will be saved must hold the Catholic faith, without it he will perish eternally without any doubt (no exception is made for invincible ignorance).
But of course you don't believe this. I will stay with the Catholic dogma.
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