> The RC Church does NOT say that any person, even a Jew, can be saved without Christ. Here is an exact quote from the document in question:
There's further,detailed discussion of the document in question on another Free Republic thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3373448/posts
"The theory that there may be two different paths to salvation, the Jewish path without Christ and the path with the Christ, whom Christians believe is Jesus of Nazareth, would in fact endanger the foundations of Christian faith.... "Confessing the universal and therefore also exclusive mediation of salvation through Jesus Christ belongs to the core of Christian faith. . . . [T]he Church and Judaism cannot be represented as "two parallel ways to salvation."
Obviously, I don't believe in making myself obnoxious to my Jewish friends by badgering them about converting to Christianity. But if the opportunity presents itself to witness to the saving power of our beloved and holy Jewish Messiah, I will do it.
What, otherwise, would we say? "Jesus wants to save everybody, except Jews?" "Jesus loves everybody, except Jews?"
Au contraire:
>>247. We hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked, for “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable” (Rom 11:29). The Church, which shares with Jews an important part of the sacred Scriptures, looks upon the people of the covenant and their faith as one of the sacred roots of her own Christian identity (cf. Rom 11:16-18). As Christians, we cannot consider Judaism as a foreign religion; nor do we include the Jews among those called to turn from idols and to serve the true God (cf. 1 Thes 1:9). With them, we believe in the one God who acts in history, and with them we accept his revealed word.<<Evangelii Gaudium
Jesus was clear that the only way to His Father was through Him; those aren’t words of men, but Jesus Himself.
No amount of political correctness can remove those words.