SALVATION ONLY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH That the Mystical Body of Christ and the Catholic Church in communion with Rome are one and the same thing, is a doctrine based on Revealed Truth ... That we must necessarily belong to the true Church if we are to attain everlasting salvation is a statement which some people reduce to a meaningless formula. - Ven. Pope Pius XII It is impossible to be joined to God except through Jesus Christ; it is impossible to be united to Christ except in and through the Church which is His Mystical Body.  - Pope St. John XXIII If you are not in the Body, you are not under the Head ... He who does not have Christ for a Head cannot be saved; and he who does not belong to the Body of Christ, that is, to the Church of Christ, does not have Christ for his head ... The Catholic Church alone is the Body of Christ; the Holy Ghost gives life to no one who is outside His Body. - St. Augustine The union of Christ with the members of the Mystical Body is obtained only by membership in the Church, for outside this chaste Spouse there is no union with the Bridegroom. She alone has the advantages of this divine union, and she alone has received the keys which are a mark of the power attached to the union. She alone is united to the Bride- groom, and she alone possesses the fecundity which is the fruit of this union. There is no life outside the Church because all the life that is to be had can come only from her, and no one possesses this life unless he belongs to her. Outside the Church there is no salvation. - Ven. William Joseph Chaminade The holy universal Church is one Body, constituted under Jesus Christ its Head ... Therefore, Christ, with His whole Church, both that which is still on earth and that which now reigns with Him in Heaven, is one person ... Therefore, the Apostle says: "from Whom the whole body being compacted and fitly joined together makes increase of the body" (Eph. 4:16). This is that Body outside which the Spirit does not give life; wherefore, St. Augustine says: "If you would live by the Spirit of Christ, be in the Body of Christ." Of this Spirit the heretic does not live, nor the schismatic, nor the excommunicated, for they are not of the Body. - Pope St. Gregory the Great The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman: unique, the Chair founded on Peter ... Outside her fold is to be found neither the true faith nor eternal salvation, for it is impossible to have God for a Father if one has not the Church for a Mother. - Bl. Pope Pius IX He Who reigns on high, to Whom is given all power in Heaven and on earth, has entrusted His Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside which there is no salvation, to one person on earth alone, namely: to Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, and to Peter's successor, the Roman Pontiff, to be governed by him with the fullness of power. - Pope St. Pius V Outside the Church there is no salvation. - St. Cyprian Outside the Church there is no salvation, and therefore if the claims of the Pope be true at all, then he who denies them imperils his soul. If a man take off by himself against an evident truth appearing by the common faith of Christendom, this conscience is very damnable. Whereto I answer that, where there is a law of the whole corps of Christendom in a matter touching belief, the difference standeth between beheading and Hell ... I would certainly maintain, and I think without any opposition, that whatever is necessary for salva- tion, that is, the things without which we cannot be saved, have been handed down to us in abundance: first of all by Sacred Scripture itself, then by its ancient interpreters, furthermore by the common practice handed down from the early Fathers, and finally by the sacred decrees of the Church. - St. Thomas More Neither sanctity nor salvation can be found outside the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church. - Bl. Pope Pius IX Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church. - Pope St. John XXIII Christ has declared the unity of the Church. Whoever parts and divides the Church cannot possess Christ ...The House of God is but one, and no one can have salvation except in the Church. - St. Cyprian It is a sin to believe that there is salvation outside the Catholic Church! - Bl. Pope Pius IX Where is the road which leads us to Jesus Christ? It is before our eyes: it is the Church. It is our duty to recall to everyone, great and small, the absolute necessity we are under to have recourse to this Church in order to work out our eternal salvation. - Pope St. Pius X How can the soul walk aright and not stray, except by following the straight road of the law of Almighty God and of the Church? - St. John of the Cross There is but one plain known road ... when you wander from this, you are lost. You must be altogether within the House of God, within the walls of salvation, to be sound and safe from injury. If you wander and walk abroad ever-so-little, if you carelessly thrust hand or foot out of the Ship ... you shall be thrust forth: the door is shut, the ocean roars, you are undone. - St. Edmund Campion Anyone who is out of this Church is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer to the home of eternal life; on the contrary, he is hurrying to the torment of eternal death. And this is the case not only if he remains a pagan without Baptism, but even if, after having been Baptized, he continue as a heretic. - St. Fulgentius The Holy, Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church is the only true Church, outside the pale of which no one can be saved. - St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori There can be only one Catholic Church, of which I am a member. This, with the help of God, I will profess till my dying hour. Rest assured, outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation. - Ven. Francis Bel I desire to die in the faith which the Holy, Roman, and Apostolic Church adheres to and defends, in which all the Saints of the New Testament have died, and outside which there is no salvation. - St. Charles Borromeo I am come hither to die for my religion, for that religion which was founded by Christ, established by the Apostles, and propagated through all the ages since, to the present day, by a visible hierarchy: a religion that rests on the testimony of the Scriptures, supported by the authority of the Fathers and Councils, outside which there can be no hopes of salvation. - St. Henry Morse The Church is a ship, and even if the ship is in difficulty, it is necessary that we at least be in it. - St. Augustine The Church is rich with heavenly doctrine ... sailing like a ship on the high seas of this world, preserving those who come to her safe and sound, while the world outside perishes. - Bl. Pope Pius IX Whoever is outside the Ark of Noah will perish in the flood. - St. Jerome It must be held as a matter of faith that outside the Apostolic Roman Church no one can be saved, that the Church is the only Ark of Salvation, and that whoever does not enter it will perish in the Flood.  - Bl. Pope Pius IX It is certain that all men of Noah's time perished, except those who merited to be in the Ark, which was a figure of the Church. Likewise, they cannot in any way now be saved who are aliens from the Apostolic faith and the Catholic Church. - St. Gaudentius of Brescia The Church is the Ark into which Jesus enters with all His faithful followers. The sinner leaves the Church as the raven once left the Ark. - St. Hilary of Poitiers The contemporaries of Noah would not believe in his warnings as he was building the Ark, and thus they became frightful examples for all posterity. Christ our God is now building His Church as the Ark of Salvation, and is calling upon all men to enter it. - St. Augustine There is no entering into salvation outside the Church, just as in the time of the Flood there was no salvation outside the Ark which denotes the Church. - St. Thomas Aquinas It is as impossible for anyone to be saved outside the Catholic Church as it was for anyone to avoid the Deluge who was outside Noah's Ark. - Bl. James Duckett The Lord Jesus goes up only into the Ark of the Church ... This Ship ... preserves safe from harm all those it carries within it. We have a true figure of this in the Old Testament; for, as all whom Noah took with him in the Ark were saved ... so, when the world shall be destroyed by fire, the Church of Peter will keep safe within her everyone she cherishes as her own. - St. Ambrose Like Noah, we announce to you the coming of the end of the world, and we warn all men to take refuge in this Ark of the Church. - St. Maximus of Turin God has given the world a holy Church in whose safe harbor the lovers of truth seek refuge, as well as all those who desire to be saved and to escape the dreadful wrath of God. - St. Theophilus of Antioch O Church of Rome! ... He who seeks another way shall find only eternal perdition. - Bl. Giles of Assisi There is no salvation outside the Church. - St. Augustine There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. Anyone who resists this truth perishes. - St. Louis Marie de Montfort There is absolutely no salvation outside the Catholic Church. - SS. Cosmas and Damian We must believe, moreover, that the Catholic Church alone is the true one; that, consequently, those whom it does not contain in its bosom, or who have separated from it, cannot be saved ... There is only one true Church, the Roman Catholic Church, outside which there is no salvation. - St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori Outside the Church there is no salvation. - St. Robert Bellarmine There is no salvation outside the Church. - St. Cyprian Since, therefore, we have such proofs, it is not necessary to seek the truth among others which is easy to obtain from the Church ... Every man whosoever desires can draw from her the water of life. For she is the entrance to life; all others are thieves and robbers. Therefore, it is necessary to obey the prelates of the Church ... who possess succession from the Apostles. But it is also necessary to hold in suspicion others who depart from this primitive succession and assemble themselves together in any place whatsoever. - St. Irenaeus of Lyons Therefore, let those who wish to be saved come to this pillar, to this foundation of truth which is the Church ... We will never spare Ourselves from any pains whatsoever ... to bring back those who are ignorant and in error to this one and only way of truth and salvation. Moreover, let all those who oppose Us remember that heaven and earth will pass away, but that not one of Christ's words can pass away, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church has received from Jesus Christ to preserve, to protect, and to preach. - Bl. Pope Pius IX E-MAIL HOME----------SAINTS-----------QUOTE OF THE WEEK----------MEMORABLE QUOTES www.catholictradition.org/Saint/saintly-quotes26.htm