You are fooled by a 'nice' artwork. It's an 'abomination' because Kirk is LOST as he died outside the Church.
Is nearly everyone on this group (apart from Boru and myself ) a believer in the Feenyite heresy?
Non Catholics can get to Purgatory, though often they’ll have fewer people to pray for them.
Already in the second century St Justin spoke of the latter: “Those who acted in accordance with what is universally, naturally and eternally good were pleasing to God and will be saved by Christ … just like the righteous who preceded them” (Dialogue with Tryphon, 45).This teaching was stated officially by the Holy See in answer to the errors of Fr Leonard Feeney, S.J., who had been professor of theology at Boston College and chaplain of the St Benedict Center at Harvard from 1945 on. Fr Feeney taught literally that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation and only Catholics can go to heaven.
To clarify the Church’s teaching, the Holy Office, with the approval of Pope Pius XII, sent a letter to the Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Richard Cushing, on 8 August 1949. It stated, among other things, that in order for someone to be saved, “it is not always required that he be incorporated into the Church actually as a member, but it is necessary that at least he be united to her by desire and longing. However, this desire need not always be explicit, as it is in catechumens; but when a person is involved in invincible ignorance God accepts also an implicit desire, so called because it is included in that good disposition of soul whereby a person wishes his will to be conformed to the will of God”.Fine if you don’t like the sculpture but Kirk was on his way to converting to be Catholic by all accounts. It’s possible he’s in Purgatory and it could be said he died for the Christian faith.
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