Outside the Catholic Church There is Absolutely No Salvation

 

By Bro. Peter Dimond, O.S.B.

 

By far the best and most in-depth book that has ever been written on the Catholic Church’s infallible teaching on the necessity of the Catholic Faith and the Sacrament of Baptism for salvation.” (from many who have read it)

 

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Listing of Sections (CLICK ON ANY SECTION BELOW TO GO DIRECTLY TO IT)

 

Introduction

1.  The Chair of St. Peter on Outside the Church There is No Salvation – page 8

2.  The Keys of St. Peter and his Unfailing Faith – page 9

·        The Chair of St. Peter Speaks the Truth that Christ Himself Delivered – page 12

3.  Believe Dogma as it was once declared – page 13

4.  Other Popes on Outside the Church There is No Salvation – page 15

5.     The Sacrament of Baptism is the only Way into the Church – page 18

6.     The One Church of the Faithful – page 19

7.     Subjection to the Church/Roman Pontiff – page 23

8.     The Sacrament of Baptism is Necessary for Salvation – page 24

9.     Water is Necessary for Baptism and John 3:5 is literal – page 25

10.  Infants Cannot Be Saved Without Baptism – page 28

11. Those who Die in Original Sin or Mortal Sin Descend into Hell – page 30

12. There is only One Baptism, Not Three – page 31

13. The Athanasian Creed – page 33 – and There is No Salvation for members of Islam, Judaism or other heretical or schismatic non-Catholic sects - page 36

Specific Catholic Teaching against Judaismpage 37

Specific Catholic Teaching against Islampage 38

Specific Catholic Teaching against Protestant and schismatic sectspage 39-41

  Concerning those validly baptized as infants by members of non-Catholic sects41

14.  Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood – Erroneous traditions of Man – page 42

·        The Fathers are unanimous from the beginning on Water Baptism– page 43

·        Not all of the Fathers always remained consistent with their own affirmation and the universal Tradition on the absolute necessity of Water Baptism– page 49

·        The theory of baptism of blood – a tradition of man– page 51

·        Two of the earliest statements on baptism of blood– page 55

·        Unbaptized Saints? – the Acts of Martyrs – page 57

·        The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste – page 58

·        St. Emerentianapages 60-61

·        St. Alban and his converted guard– page 62

·        Summarizing the Facts on Baptism of Blood– page 63

·        Miraculous Baptisms– page 64

·        The Theory of Baptism of Desire – a tradition of man– page 68

·         St.  Augustine– page 69

·         St. Ambrose– page 72

·         St. Gregory Nazianz –page 76

            ◦ St. Gregory Nazianz and the Roman Breviary – page 77

·         St. John Chrysostom– page 77

·         Liturgical Tradition and Apostolic Burial Tradition– page 79

·         Pope St. Siricius– page 80

·         The Middle Ages– page 81

·         St. Bernard– page 82

·        St. Thomas Aquinas – page 85

·        The Dogmatic Council of Vienne (1311-1312) – page 87

·        St. Thomas Aquinas rejected “Invincible Ignorance” – page 88

15. Pope St. Leo the Great Ends the Debate – page 89

Pope Leo the Great infallibly declares that the water of baptism is inseparable from the spirit of justification

16.  Major Objections:

- Sess. 6, Chap. 4 of the Council of Trentpage 95

·        Aut used to mean “and” in the context of Councilspage 97

·        An interesting E-Mail regarding this passage of Trentpage 99

- The Dogma, Pope Pius IX and Invincible Ignorancepage 105

·        What about Pope Pius IX?page 107

·        Singulari Quadem (an allocution to the Cardinals)page 107

·        Quanto Conficiamur Moerorepage 110

·        Invincible Ignorance becomes a destructive heresy, obliterating the necessity of the Catholic Faith all over the worldpage 114

1.       St. Paul (p. 115), Fr. Francisco de Vitoria (p. 115), St. Augustine and St. Prosper (p. 116) against Invincible Ignorance

·        Other Popes and Saints against Invincible Ignorancepage 117

1.       Pope Benedict XIV, Pope St. Pius X, Pope Paul III, Pope Gregory the Great, Fr. De Smet, Pope Pelagius I, etc. against Invincible Ignorance

·        Sacred Scripture against Invincible Ignorance, and evidence of the Immediate Dissemination of the Gospel throughout the whole worldpage 121