Holy Athanasius
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I believe you're right Bob!
He's wrong. The idea that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus means that you have physically be a member of the Catholic Church to be saved is a heretical idea that was invented by a priest named Feeney in the early 20th century.
But his teaching on this was denounced by the Pope and the Vatican formally. We have always believed, long before Vatican II that there was baptism of blood and baptism of desire. That is to say, God may baptize someone in an extraordinary way, if they have an implicit desire for the truth, to be with God, even if they are not formally Catholic.
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