August 31, 2007

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When Catholic Church boldly stands firm for the truth, it imitates Christ

After reading the editorial by John Fink (“One True Church”) in the Aug. 3 issue of The Criterion, I was not surprised, but I was deeply pleased.

I have been a practicing Catholic for 65 years, and the teaching that the holy Catholic Church is “the one true Church” is ancient and nothing new.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, in part, “… Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it” (#846).

And this by no means excludes sincere people from gaining salvation for in the following paragraph we read, “Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation” (CCC, #847).

Our Lord and Savior did not mince words, but boldly stated the truth.

When our Catholic Church boldly stands firm for the truth, it imitates Christ and is showing the sure way to eternal life to the world.

- Paul Kachinski, Greenwood

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