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.”
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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,”
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