Welcome back to Samus Popry. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I want to cover a potentially sensitive topic

today, this question of whether or not Catholics believe that all non-Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox,

and other non-Catholic Christians, as well as obviously non-Christians, whether we believe they're all going to hell.

And there's a couple ways I want to approach this.

First, this idea that the Catholic Church anathematizes Protestants.

You'll regularly hear certain Protestant speakers claiming, oh, you know, the battled Catholic

Church has issued an anathema against the gospel and against Protestants, and, you know,

they'll usually point to the Council of Trent.

And so one question worth asking is, is any of that true?

And what is an anathema on how does all that work?

But then I want to get to actually the fundamental, just the heart of the question.

So I actually think the anathema thing is a bit of a distraction and say, is it damnable not to be Catholic?

And what do we make of the biblical answer to that question?

So let's start with the anathema thing.

As I say, you'll find people saying, you know, Protestants are under an anathema,

and you'll find some Catholics saying, no, they're not.

And I think in some ways, this sort of misses the mark.

I think in a technical sense, the answer is no.

Somebody raised Protestant is not under an anathema for a pretty simple reason.

Anathema, as Dieter von Hildebrand points out in the charitable anathema,

is the pronouncement that you've been excluded from the

communion of the church if you don't retract your errors. You are presenting something heretical

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