But the genuine and distinctly non-Catholic doctrines can save nobody. What do I mean by genuine non-Catholic doctrines? Well, I mean, not those received from the Catholic Church, but those which are exelusively Protestant, which were brought Gut and invented by the reformers. For instance, that the Mass is a blasphemous fable, that St. Peter was not appointed by Our Lord as head of the Church, that the Pope is not infallible, that there is no such place &s purgatory, that there are not seven sacraments, but at most only two; tha; what God has joined together in matrimony tan may pu: asunder in the divorce court, thai Christ did not give power to the Church to forgive sin, and that con: fession is only an invention of the priests, thet Our Lord is not personally present in the Blessed Eucharist that Mary is not the immaculate Mother of God. These, and others, which Were never thought of before tke reformation And none of these ccetrines can save anyone, for they are not true; they come not from Gpd Lut from men, namely, the founders of these various religious denomina-tons.
So far for Christians who live and ie outside the pale of the Church.
hat is Catholic teaching on the subject of those other millions, the gentiles. of he pagan races who know God only from afar off. as the Great Spirit, or under seme or other of the innumerable forms which we for instancë in a pagan temple? imén of each city or each household were to be free io think out a religion: for themselves, according to their private judgment, as was done by the reformers in the sixteenth century—an Anglican religion in Eng-lend, a Lutheran religion in Germany, Calvanism in Switzerland, and so on. Our Lord left them under no illusion as to what they were to believe, and as to the consequences of a refusal to believe, for He added the most solemn unmistakable Men of Good: Will They, tàoi-were created for Heaven. and the words-of Pope Pius IX, already quoted apply to them also.
moly, if they live good and upright lives &ecording to their lights they etn by God's grace come to their is equally certain that
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