[ealgeone]

“No man can find salvation except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church one can have everything except salvation. One can have honor, one can have sacraments, one can sing allulia, one can answer amen, one can have faith in the name of the Father, and of the son, and of the Holy Ghost, and preach it too, but never can one find salvation except in the Catholic Church.”

~ St. Augustine (354-430) Bishop and Doctor of the Church.

You're saying that a mortally wounded soldier who accepts Christ as Savior and dies just seconds after his profession of faith is not saved??

He has not been baptized, had communion, anything other than he's professed faith in Christ.

Heaven or Hell?

What say you?

[Salvation]

John 3:5

[caww]

Seems to me that’s why so often we hear when one is dying or close to death a Priest is called immediately to oversee and administer what they do.

I think it includes the Priest has the authority through this ritual to offer them forgiveness for all their ‘venial’ sins and even their mortal sins if they are unable to confess them but are truly sorry for them. Thus the Priest appears to stand in the place of Christ...for in reality only Christ can forgive sins.

Therefore to my understanding if the Priest isn’t present to do this they’re doomed.