Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Bhuddists will BURN in HELL!
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- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:31:41 -0700
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -- The Vatican on Tuesday said Christian
denominations outside the Roman Catholic Church were not full churches
of Jesus Christ.
The Vatican said other churches are "wounded" since they do not
recognise the primacy of the Pope.
A 16-page document, prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, which Pope Benedict used to head, described Christian
Orthodox churches as true churches, but suffering from a "wound" since
they do not recognize the primacy of the Pope.
But the document said the "wound is still more profound" in the
Protestant denominations -- a view likely to further complicate
relations with Protestants.
"Despite the fact that this teaching has created no little
distress ... it is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of
'Church' could possibly be attributed to them," it said.
The Vatican text, which restates the controversial document "Dominus
Iesus" issued by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 2000, said the
Church wanted to stress this point because some Catholic theologians
continued to misunderstand it.
Ratzinger was elected Pope in April 2005. The document is his second
strong reaffirmation of Catholic tradition in four days, following a
decree on Saturday restoring the old Latin Mass alongside the modern
liturgy.
The document stressed that dialogue with other Christians remained
"one of the priorities of the Catholic Church".
The document, issued by Benedict's successor in doctrinal matters,
Cardinal William Levada, complemented the Latin Mass decree in aiming
to correct what it called "erroneous or ambiguous" interpretations of
the Second Vatican Council, which took place from 1962 to 1965.
Church modernisers interpreted the Council as a break from the past
while conservatives, like Benedict, see it in continuity with 2,000
years of Catholic tradition.
The document said the Council's opening to other faiths recognised
there were "many elements of sanctification and truth" in other
Christian denominations, but stressed only Catholicism had all the
elements to be Christ's Church fully.
The text refers to "ecclesial communities originating from the
Reformation", a term used to refer to Protestants and Anglicans.
Father Augustine Di Noia, Under-Secretary for the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith, said the document did not alter the commitment
for ecumenical dialogue, but aimed to assert Catholic identity in
those talks.
"The Church is not backtracking on ecumenical commitment," Di Noia
told Vatican radio.
"But, as you know, it is fundamental to any kind of dialogue that the
participants are clear about their own identity. That is, dialogue
cannot be an occasion to accommodate or soften what you actually
understand yourself to be."
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