Vatican II and Salvation

Vatican II stressed over and over that the Church is necessary for salvation and defended the infallible dogma of "No Salvation Outside of the Catholic Church". It even goes so far as too proclaim, �the Church is the new people of God� Nostra Aetate IV. Heretics and the secular media have fooled people into believing Vatican II stated that those outside the Catholic Church could be saved. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Council never said salvation could be found in Protestant sects or non christian religion. It also never declared that atheists would be saved. The Catholic Church in its infinite wisdom explained in Vatican II that those who are inculpable ignorant, one who never heard of Christ and His Holy Catholic Church, could be lead into union with the Church by miraculous means only known to God. Needless to say the Church was acknowledging God�s ability to perform miracles. Everyone understands miracles are a very rare occurrence and one must conclude that the number of souls lead into communion with Christ�s mystical body by extraordinary means before death is miniscule.

"For it is only through Christ's Catholic Church, which is the all embracing means of salvation, that they can benefit fully from the means of salvation." Unitatis Redintegratio 3

"Therefore though God in ways known to Himself can lead those inculpable ignorant of the Gospel to find that faith without which it is impossible to please Him (Heb. 11:6), yet a necessity lies upon the Church (1 Cor. 9:16), and at the same time a sacred duty, to preach the Gospel. And hence missionary activity today as always retains its power and necessity." AD GENTES 7

"Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved." Lumen Gentium 14

"Undeniably, those who willfully shut out God from their hearts and try to dodge religious questions are not following the dictates of their consciences, and hence are not free of blame" GAUDIUM ET SPES 19

"For man has in his heart a law written by God; to obey it is the very dignity of man; according to it he will be judged." GAUDIUM ET SPES 16

"This missionary activity derives its reason from the will of God, "who wishes all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, Himself a man, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself as a ransom for all" (1 Tim. 2:4-5), "neither is there salvation in any other" (Acts 4:12). Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism, and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself, "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door." Ad Gentes 7