Author Topic: Orestes Brownson Calls Out the Catholics Who Deny Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (Read 6256 times)

OABrownson1876 · « **on:** June 14, 2024, 10:12:58 AM »

While typing out this Brownson article for my website, I discovered this Brownson quote which is relevant to the current, modern-day error entertained by most Catholics throughout the world, That there is Salvation Outside the Church:

"The age is latitudinarian, and thinks one religion, unless it be the Catholic, as good as another, because it believes in none. We found our Catholic laity extensively infected with a latitudinarian spirit, fraternizing with their 'separated brethren,' and calling upon Protestant ministers to say grace for them at their public dinners, and in presence of their own priests too,- throwing up their hands in pious horror at our illiberality, if we hinted that their liberal Protestant friends could not be saved unless they became Catholics, and most loudly applauding themselves for being liberal Catholics. We found our current catholic literature so explaining the qualification which some theologians add to the dogma, Out of the Church there is no salvation, as to open heaven to the great mass of heretics and infidels, and to save more by the exception than the rule. Indeed, every Protestant, Anglican, Calvinist, Socinian, or Deist, of decent manners and kind feelings, was looked upon as in the way of salvation. What was our duty as a Catholic writer? We found the age clamoring for religious liberty, meaning thereby the liberty of infidelity to enslave and oppress the Church, and we found Catholics uniting in the clamor, and maintaining that every man has the natural right to be what religion he chooses, thus denying the essential distinction between truth and falsehood, virtue and vice. Were we to be silent, and suffer a manifest error to be imbibed by our Catholic community, an error which would create serious embarrassments for our grandchildren, lest by contradicting it, and stating the truth on the subject, we might expose our religion to the censure of non-Catholics? If Catholics themselves were in no danger of being infected with the error, prudence would require us to pass it over silence; but when we could hardly speak with a Catholic layman in the country, who would not echo the condemned doctrine of Voltaire on Tolerance, it was manifestly our duty to state the truth as taught by our approved Catholic theologians."
"You go Too Far," Brownson's Quarterly Review for January, 1854

"You Go Too Far"

Pax Vobis · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2024, 10:43:41 AM »

Orestes Brownson strikes again with the sword of Truth!

ElwinRansom1970 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2024, 11:43:07 AM »

I used to make an annual pilgrimage to Brownson's grave located in the crypt chapel at the Sacred Heart Minor Basilica on the campus of University of Notre Dame. I should resume that annual devotional work after these many years.

Author Topic: Orestes Brownson Calls Out the Catholics Who Deny Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (Read 6256 times)

OABrownson1876

Orestes Brownson Calls Out the Catholics Who Deny Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus

Pax Vobis

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