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Paul John Henry Newman, keep the faith. Unite beneath the banner of Christ the King. And now, at the end, I conclude with a proposal to you: join me in this profession of faith, which I will now read, caused by the current, well-known, recent, very sad, and confusing affirmations of Pope Francis that all religions are paths to God and that they are a gift of God. So I composed this profession of faith.
We unshakably believe and profess what the ordinary and universal Magisterium of the Church has continuously and infallibly taught since the times of the Apostles, namely, that faith in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God and only Savior of mankind, is the only religion built by God after the institution of the new and everlasting covenant in Jesus Christ.
No one may be saved by adherence to the teachings and practices of non-Christian religions, because prayer directed to God must be linked to Christ, the Lord of all peoples, the only Mediator through whom alone we have access to God.
We firmly believe that there is no other name under heaven given to man whereby we must be saved except the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was crucified and whom God has raised from the dead.
We believe and now I quote the declaration Dominus Iesus, made 24 years ago by the Holy See:
“It is contrary to the Catholic faith to consider the Church as one of the ways of salvation, alongside those constituted by other religions, seen as complementary to the Church or seen as substantially equivalent to the Church, even if these are said to be converging with the Church toward the eschatological Kingdom of God.” End of quotation from Dominus Iesus.
We furthermore hold that divine revelation, faithfully transmitted by the Church’s perennial Magisterium, forbids affirming that all religions are paths to God, that the diversity of religious identities is a gift of God, and that the diversity of religions is an expression of the wise will of God the Creator. We hold, therefore, that Christians are not simply traveling companions along with adherents of false religions, which God forbids.
We fervently implore the help of divine grace for all those churchmen today who, by their words and deeds, contradict the divinely revealed truths about Jesus Christ and His Church as the only path by which man can reach God and eternal salvation. With the help of divine grace, may these churchmen be enabled to offer a public retraction, required for the good of their own souls and the souls of others. To quote: “Not accepting Christ is the greatest danger for the world.” – St. Hilary of Poitiers.
By the prayers, tears, and sacrifices of all the true sons and daughters of the Church, and especially of the little ones in the Church, may the shepherds of the Church first and foremost Pope Francis receive the grace to emulate the Apostles, countless martyrs, numerous holy Roman Pontiffs, and a multitude of saints, especially St. Francis of Assisi, who, in the words of Pius XI, was “a Catholic and entirely apostolic man, who set about personally, and who commanded his disciples to occupy themselves before everything else with the conversion of the pagans to the faith and law of Christ.”
We believe and, with God’s grace, are ready to give our lives for these divine truths pronounced by Jesus Christ:
“I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through Me.”