SALVATION: NO SALVATION OUTSIDE OF THE CHURCH The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman: unique, the Chair founded on Peter ...Outside her fold is to be found neither the true faith nor eternal salvation, for it is impossible to have God for a Father if one has not the Church for a Mother. Ven. Pope Pius IX If any man be outside the Church, he will be excluded from the number of sons, and will not have God for Father since he has not the Church for Mother. Pope Leo XII This Church, thus marvelously founded, assuredly could not cease with the death of its Founder, nor of the Apostles who led the way in its propagation, for to it the commission was given of bringing all men to eternal salvation: all men, without distinction of time or place ... Now, no one is in this One Church, and no one perseveres in it unless he acknowledges and obediently accepts the power and authority of Peter and his legitimate successors. Pope Pius XI He Who reigns on high, to Whom is given all power in Heaven and on earth, has entrusted His Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside which there is no salvation, to one person on earth alone, namely: to Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, and to Peters successor, the Roman Pontiff, to be governed by him with the fullness of power. Pope St. Pius V Neither sanctity nor salvation can be found outside the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church. Bl. Pope Pius IX Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church. Pope John XXIII He who is separated from the Catholic Church will not have life. Pope Gregory XVI It is a sin to believe that there is salvation outside the Catholic Church! Bl. Pope Pius IX If any man does not enter the Church, or if any man departs from it, he is far from the hope of life and salvation. Pope Pius XI What is the road which opens for us the way to Jesus Christ? ... The answer, valid yesterday as it is today and for all time to come, is: the Church. Pope Pius XII Where is the road which leads us to Jesus Christ? It is before our eyes: it is the Church. It is our duty to recall to everyone, great and small, the absolute necessity we are under to have recourse to this Church in order to work out our eternal salvation. Pope St. Pius X There is only one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one can be saved. Pope Innocent III It is necessary for each individual to become a living part of the Church ... to face even death so as not to lose the faith ... Whoever does not preserve the faith of the Father and the Son does not have life and salvation. Pope Pius XII In Holy Mother Church lies all hope of eternal salvation ... If anyone is outside the Ark of Noah, he will perish in the overwhelming flood. Pope Benedict XV The Church is rich with heavenly doctrine ... sailing like a ship on the high seas of this world, preserving those who come to her safe and sound, while the world outside perishes. Bl. Pope Pius IX We are compelled in virtue of our faith to believe and maintain that there is only one Catholic Church, and that one Apostolic. This we firmly believe and profess without qualification. Outside this Church there is no salvation and no remission of sins ... For at the time of the Deluge there existed only one Ark, the figure of the one Church. And we read that all things existing upon the earth outside this Ark perished. Pope Boniface VIII It must be held as a matter of faith that outside the Apostolic Roman Church no one can be saved, that the Church is the only Ark of Salvation, and that whoever does not enter it will perish in the Flood. Bl. Pope Pius IX The Ship of the Church is guided by Christ and by His Vicar ... It alone carries the disciples and receives Christ. Yes, it is tossed on the sea but, outside it, one would perish immediately. Salvation is only in the Church; outside it, one perishes. Pope John Paul I We believe with our hearts and confess with our lips but one Church, not that of heretics, but the Holy, Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, outside of which we believe that no one is saved. Pope Innocent III This is the faith of the Catholic Church out of which no one can be saved. Pope Benedict XIV Therefore, let those who wish to be saved come to this pillar, to this foundation of truth which is the Church ... We will never spare Ourselves from any pains whatsoever ... to bring back those who are ignorant and in error to this one and only way of truth and salvation. Moreover, let all those who oppose Us remember that heaven and earth will pass away, but that not one of Christs words can pass away, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church has received from Jesus Christ to pre- serve, to protect, and to preach. Ven. Pope Pius IX O glorious St. Peter ... who wast honored by Jesus Christ with singular privileges and in particular with the leadership of the other Apostles and the primacy of the whole Church, of which thou wast made the foundation stone, do thou obtain for us the grace of a lively faith that shall not fear to profess itself openly, in its entirety and in all its manifestations, even to the shedding of blood ... Obtain for us, likewise, a sincere loyalty to our Holy Mother the Church; grant that we may ever remain most closely and sincerely united to the Roman Pontiff who is the heir of thy faith and authority: the one, true, visible head of the Catholic Church, that mystical Ark outside which there is no salvation. Pope Benedict XV •••
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