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DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH St. Thomas Aquinas: “To be subject to the Roman Pontiff is necessary for salvation.” St. Augustine: “No man can find salvation save in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church he can find everything except salvation. He can have dignities, he can have the Sacraments, can sing ‘Alleluia’, answer ‘Amen’, accept the Gospels; have faith in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and preach it, too, but never except in the Catholic Church can he find salvation.” ° St. Peter Canisius: “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 corrup- ted it; not to schismatics who left the peace and unity of the Church; finally, neither to excommu- nicates 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,” PERMISSU SUPERIORUM “E 4704 MADE IN U.S.A.

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