Day 118: The Church and Non-Christians

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

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

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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.

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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,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.5	to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.5	In 365 days, we'll read that the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in
0:22.2	God's family, as we journey together toward our Heavenly Home. This is day 118 where reading
0:26.4	paragraphs 839-848 as always. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes
0:31.6	the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism
0:35.4	of the Catholic Church. It's all the same words. It's great. You can also download your own
0:39.2	Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y. And lastly, you can
0:44.5	click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications.
0:48.4	Today is day 118. As I said, we're reading paragraphs 839-848. So we're still on the articles,
0:54.8	the four marks of the Church. Church is one holy Catholic and Apostolic yesterday. We talked about
1:00.4	what does Catholic mean? We remember it means universal or according to the totality and keeping
1:05.2	with the whole. The Church is Catholic in a double sense, right? Because Christ is fully present in
1:10.8	her, the fullness of the means of salvation, the fullness of truth, subsisting the Catholic Church,
1:14.9	so that fullness, that totality, that universality, but also because the Church is meant to go out to
1:19.9	all of the world, like the entire universe essentially. Also, we noted that there's dioceses and
1:25.9	dioceses need to be united in faith in their worship of the sacraments, worship of God through the
1:30.0	sacraments, united with their apostolically ordained bishop, united with the Holy Father and Rome,
1:34.8	all these things. We also noted in those last paragraphs 836-837-838, who belongs to the Catholic
1:41.6	Church? And there's a pretty bold statement that says, all human beings are called to this Catholic
1:46.7	unity in the people of God and to it in the different ways belong or are ordered. First of all,
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