Day 118: The Church and Non-Christians (2025)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike examines the relationship between the Church and non-Christian religions. He discusses that while there is some degree of goodness and truth in every religion, the fullness of truth exists in the Catholic Church. Fr. Mike concludes with a reflection on the statement from the early Church Fathers that “outside the Church there is no salvation.” Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 839-848.

This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.

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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down
0:13.5	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by
0:16.9	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:21.2	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.8	This is Day 118. We're reading paragraphs 839 to 848, as always. I'm using the Ascension
0:29.9	edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach. You can follow along
0:33.7	with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It's all the same words. It's great. You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting
0:41.1	ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for
0:46.4	daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 118. As I said, we're reading paragraphs 839 to 848.
0:53.4	So we're still on the articles.
0:54.8	The four marks of the church.
0:56.3	The church is one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic yesterday.
0:59.4	We talked about what does Catholic mean?
1:01.6	Remember, it means universal or according to the totality in keeping with the whole.
1:06.1	The church is Catholic in a double sense, right?
1:08.7	Because Christ is fully present in her, the fullness of the means of
1:12.3	salvation, the fullness of truth subsists in the Catholic Church. So that fullness, that totality,
1:16.5	that universality, but also because the church is meant to go out to all of the world, like the
1:21.4	entire universe, essentially. Also, we noted that there's dioceses and dioceses need to be united in faith in their worship
1:28.7	with sacraments, worship of God through the sacraments, united with their apostolically ordained
1:32.8	bishop, united with the Holy Father in Rome, all of these things.
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