No salvation outside the Church. This dogma of the faith was defined early in the 14th century by Pope Boniface VIII.

What it doesn’t mean: This dogma does not mean that only Catholics go to heaven, nor does it mean that all Catholics go to heaven.

What it does mean: The Catholic Church is the sole and the universal sacrament of salvation. Eternal life comes to no human soul by any means other than the Catholic Church: by no other religion, no other Christian church or denomination, no other belief system, no other effort or practice. When he founded his Church, Jesus Christ established her as the sole means by which grace, without which no one reaches heaven, enters the world. Any human soul that reaches heaven does so by the ministry of this Church. Full communion with this Church is the ordinary and surest means to reach heaven, because this Church is his bride, and heaven is union with him, the Bridegroom.

This message is part of The Trad Store’s Catholic series, which unequivocally proclaims the Catholic Church as the one true religion.