Denzinger 714
... It (the Roman Church) believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart "into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels" [Matt. 25:41], unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.Pope Eugenius IV1441
Contrast with the Words of Vatican II
Compare the above decree of Pope Eugenius IV to thContrast with the Words of false Vatican II
Compare the above decree of Pope Eugenius IV to the raw heresy given in even many, of the most significant elements
or endowments which together go to build up and give life to the Church
herself can exist outside the visible boundaries of the Catholic Church:
the written word of God; the life of grace, faith, hope and charity, along
with other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit and visible elements.
- from The Documents
of Vatican II, Ecumenism
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