Pope Benedict: "Catholic Church is only true church"
The Vatican has affirmed that the Roman Catholic Church is the one and only, true church of Jesus Christ to the exclusion of all others in a new doctrinal document released today.
The new document, released from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will address questions about the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, in Lumen Gentium, that the Church founded by Christ "subsists in the Catholic Church." The document repeats and reinforces the fundamental message of "Dominus Iesus" that the Church founded by Jesus Christ exists fully in the Catholic Church alone, which Pope Benedict XVI approved back when he was just Cardinal Ratzinger, and when John Paul II was pope. The document will critique the notion that other religious bodies may also represent the Church founded by Christ, and caution against the "ecclesial relativism" that Pope Benedict has criticized in the past. This contradicts the holding under Pope John XXIII during Vatican II that Protestants are "separated brethren" along with the ecumenical double talk of other previous popes calling Protestants fellow Christians.
See Chick's "Are Roman Catholics Christian?" http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52225
The new document, released from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will address questions about the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, in Lumen Gentium, that the Church founded by Christ "subsists in the Catholic Church." The document repeats and reinforces the fundamental message of "Dominus Iesus" that the Church founded by Jesus Christ exists fully in the Catholic Church alone, which Pope Benedict XVI approved back when he was just Cardinal Ratzinger, and when John Paul II was pope. The document will critique the notion that other religious bodies may also represent the Church founded by Christ, and caution against the "ecclesial relativism" that Pope Benedict has criticized in the past. This contradicts the holding under Pope John XXIII during Vatican II that Protestants are "separated brethren" along with the ecumenical double talk of other previous popes calling Protestants fellow Christians.
See Chick's "Are Roman Catholics Christian?" http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52225
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