Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holfway thought the talk, "Roly God. We Praise Thy Name." chant of the Holy Name Society, should be heard from St. Paul's Church, necessitating the closing of St. Benedict's door...
...official Catholic position he made an error of omission. Basing his statement on the latest edition of the Baltimore Cathecism, he wrote "The relevant part of the Cathecism says in effect that all that posses God's grace, even if they are not actual members of the Church, are considered as belonging to the soul of the Church and thus can achieve salvation." This paraphrase of paragraph 168 of the Baltimore Cathecism, no. 3, 1949, seems to be accurate enough. But in paragraph 166 (page 129) one reads...
...saved without sanctifying grace and the Catholic Church alone is the divinely established means by which grace is brought to the world and the full fruits of Our Lord's Redemption are applied...
...conclusion seems to be that though one may be saved which not a member of the Catholic Church he can do so only through the agency of the Church. Bernard Ballyn...