Once again, our current pontiff has caused confusion and consternation among the faithful. I just want to remind y’all that a pope’s teachings are only infallible under very specific, very defined circumstances. This one doesn’t even remotely qualify.
CLICK https://x.com/MLJHaynes/status/1834519918907150455 to hear him. My cousin speaks Italian. She listened to this and says it is an accurate translation. I understand what he was trying to say here, encouraging young people to dialogue, not argue about religion.
But he was wrong when he said, “Every religion is a way to arrive at God.” He was not only wrong; he was going against the clear teaching of Jesus Christ, which has been preserved by the church He founded.
What the Bible says –
John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”
Acts 4:12 “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.“
1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
John 3:36 “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.“
1 John 5:12 “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
John 10:9 “I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.“
What the Roman Catholic Church teaches –
According to the declaration Dominus Iesus (On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church), “the Church’s constant missionary proclamation is endangered today by relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism, not only de facto, but also de iure (or in principle)“.
“It is clear that it would be contrary to the faith to consider the Church as one way of salvation alongside those constituted by the other religions.“
– Issued in 2000 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) as prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith
Also,
“This perverse opinion is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to your care. With the admonition of the apostle that ‘there is one God, one faith, one baptism’ may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever.;” – Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, 1832
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