What happens if:
1. A Prot or Orthodox has ben brainwashed his whole life to think the CC is evil, hence avoiding it like the plague
2. Someone is in the hinterlands and never hears teh Gospel msg, or if he does, from a Prot and then no more msgs
3. A guy has the internet, TV, etc at his advantage but beleives all the anti-CC stuff out there nad shuts his mind off...
Do we then say-ooops, so sad, to bad like some Calvinist predestinarian???
It is erroneous to say all will be saved or "it does not matter what one beleives",etc=universal salvation
It is also erroneous to decide what God alone knows-what is in the hearta nd mind...He saves ,we do not.....suffice to say, few are saved, many lost....instead of clinging to obsessions, I propose to pray for them, show them teh way through our example, answer their questions as Peter tells us in his letter and avoid man-made extremes of Feeney or Liberal modernists.....Dogma is Dogma, but there are always questions of how to apply it.....some dod not willingly reject the Church, but inhereited the herest.....willing heretics (Wycliff,Luther,Waldo,etc) are guilty and the edicts,etc are directed at them directly-again, we have to have context of the edicts-but not all that followed them now are guilty of willful heresy......one cannot be blamed, nor convicted of waht they do not know......with God the old axiom "Ignorance of the law is no exception to the law" does not hold water, God is both justice and mercy....
One reason I do not use the term "traditionalist" anymore, but "ortohodox", small "o" is the anger and lack of mercy amongst Trads.....as sort of Jansesit/Calvinistic feel.....Catholic need to keep balance in mind......Calvinists beleived taht God chose some, that is it no matter how much faith or good one did, when one died-"oops sorry you are not one of the pre-chosen"
Likely if a Prot/Schismatic avoided Hell, it was complete ignorance of truth and likely a loooong Purgatory time, esp as they received no Graces in life and not Masses/prayers in Purgatory.....
Likely with this reply, I will be pelted and likely not welcome anymore here, so I guess I will sign off site and figure my welcome is at an end.....