| EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS |
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| Ex Cathedra: "There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved." Pope Innocent III Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 |
| Ex Cathedra: "We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff." Pope Boniface VIII the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302 |
| Ex Cathedra: "The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church." Pope Eugene IV the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441 |
| Outside of this communion (as outside of the Ark of Noah) there is absolutely no salvation for mortals: not to Jews or Pagans, who never received the faith of the Church; not to heretics who, having received it, forsook or corrupted it; not to schismatics who left the peace and unity of the Church; finally neither to excommunicates who for any other serious cause deserved to be put away and separated from the body of the Church, like pernicious members. . . For the rule of Cyprian and Augustine is certain: he will not have God for his Father who would not have the Church for his Mother. Saint Peter Canisius Catechism of Catholic Doctrine |
| He who confesses the salutary doctrine of Jesus Christ, true God and true Man, in His Church. Hence, he who is truly a Christian condemns and detests thoroughly all cults and sects which are found outside the doctrine and Church of Christ, everywhere, and among all peoples, as for example, the Jewish, the Mohammedan, and the heretical cults and sects; and he firmly assents to the same doctrine of Christ. Saint Peter Canisius Catechism of Catholic Doctrine |
| "There is no entering into salvation outside the Church, just as in the time of the deluge there was none outside the ark, which denotes the Church." Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae |
| "No man can find salvation except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church one can have everything except salvation. One can have honor, one can have the sacraments, one can sing alleluia, one can answer amen, one can have faith in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and preach it too, but never can one find salvation except in the Catholic Church." Saint Augustine Sermo ad Caesariensis Ecclesia plebem |