The Authority of the Church

• Although there is disagreement on this, barring exceptional cases, Catholic teaching is that there is no salvation for those who do not belong to the Catholic Church.
• The Magisterium, which is the teaching apparatus of the Catholic Church, claims to have the final word on all interpretations of scripture.
• Submission to the Pope is taught to be mandatory for salvation.
• Priests and more elite members of the Roman Catholic Church claim to carry the authority of the apostles, through apostolic succession.

In 1302, Pope Boniface VIII promulgated the Bull Unam Sanctam: 'With faith urging us we are forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this (Church) outside which there is no salvation nor remission of sin . . . Furthermore, we declare, say, define and proclaim to every human creature that they by necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff.' (Denzinger 468-69)

'It (Roman Church) firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart "into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels" [Matt. 25:41], unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.' (Council of Florence (1441), Pope Eugenius, Decree for the Jacobites, in the Bull Cantata Domino; Denzinger 714)

'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' (LG 16)

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Mary

There are four Marian dogmas.