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All of this post by Cantarella seems fine to me. I have a few things to add.....
These are the direct results brought by the Modernist attack on the Catholic dogma of exclusive salvation, in which non-Catholics are actually considered members of the Church Militant and treated as such.
It's a bit ironic to see the term "Church Militant" used in this connotation. I suspect that Pope Francis would be averse to this term, and I highly doubt he would ever use it. (Has anyone heard of him saying "Church Militant" in reference to anything at all?)
The irony I find
most alarming here is, Protestants are militant AGAINST the Church by their pernicious heresy, defection from the truth and propagation of error, and the horrific consequence of this error reaching into the papacy itself, as this story explains in lurid detail.
There are some here however, who pretend that this Protestant could in fact be a member of the Church and be in the state of sanctifying grace (perhaps he is part of the "soul" of the Church, "invincible ignorant" of the need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation) in which case, what Pope Francis is doing would not come as a surprise or be considered an error.
Please note, this is nothing other than the logical consequence of denial of the thrice-defined dogma of
extra ecclesiam nulla salus, (EENS), Outside the Church there is no salvation. It has been going on a LONG time, the history of which was punctuated with those three
ex-cathedra definitions, which all Catholics are bound to believe AS WRITTEN. The first one attempted to settle the issue with the clear language in simple terms, but the attacks of the devil persisted to the effect that a SECOND definition was necessary less than 100 years later, which was given in MORE specific detail, and not presuming that everyone would just "get it" as had happened the first time. But the devil never sleeps, and consequently, a THIRD definition was required, this time, employing words that had seemed unnecessary a couple hundred years before, saying that all non-Catholics, even if they were to pour out their blood (be martyred) for the name of Christ, cannot be saved unless they die in the bosom of Holy Mother Church.
Even so, the devil never sleeps and that's why we still have attacks against this clear language even today, with 'nuancing' that attempts to give new meaning to the words of these definitions:
It all depends on what you mean by "inside."
It all depends on what you mean by "the Church."
It all depends on what you mean by "salvation."
It all depends on what you mean by "outside."
It all depends on what you mean by "no."
Remember Bill Clinton?
"It all depends on what you mean by the word, 'is'!"
Reality is though, that with this "Interfaith" approach, what Pope Francis and his Modernist friends seek is not conversion to the True Catholic Religion but simply "convergence" -- to supplant what is truly Catholic, with what is merely "global" or "acceptable" for all, until there is nothing left from the authentic Faith of Christ.
Didn't Our Lord ask,
"When I return will I find, think ye, faith on earth?"
Everything is part of a strategic and relentless process of annihilation of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, in which the most important point is the denial of Her exclusivity as only means of human salvation.
It is a disgrace!
What we are seeing is the fulfillment of prophesy, the inexorable march toward preparation for the reign of Antichrist. Our own parents would never have believed that we would one day see the Church devolve into this chaos, but here it is. What do you expect our children will see in their lifetimes? One thing's for sure: there is more to come...........
It is just warming up.
We ain't seen nothin' yet!.
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