Originally Posted by RickBin
Originally Posted by 2ndwind
Originally Posted by Steve_NO
Wouldn't it be kind of weird if the head of the Catholic Church DIDN'T think it's teaching is the correct route to salvation?


Well then Steve do you see the irony of catholics getting all worked up when some MEMBERS of other Churchs say "bashing" things about them while the world wide LEADER of the Catholic Church is saying everybody that isn't catholic is going to Hell? I sure do.


Uhh, excuse me, but that is not what he said. Try again. Tell you what, here's what he said:

"�It follows that these separated churches and Communities, though we believe they suffer from defects, are deprived neither of significance nor importance in the mystery of salvation. In fact the Spirit of Christ has not refrained from using them as instruments of salvation, whose value derives from that fullness of grace and of truth which has been entrusted to the Catholic Church�[12].

That is VERBATIM from his statement.

Get your facts straight.
Are you sure that's not a quote of John Paul II?