With all the fervor surrounding Pope Francis these days I think it is important for us to ingrain in our hearts where Christ's Church is to be truly found. I offer the following solid article and then the wonderful document issued by the Vatican on August 6, 2000 (In honor of my and Geralyn's 17th wedding anniversary) https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=8181 http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html They're heady at times, but then, the killing of a few brain cells are worth it. Safe in the Barque of Peter!
While I admit that I did not read every single word and have only a very few brain cells left to spare, I found what was important to me. Thank you, Mario. II. THE INCARNATE LOGOS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE WORK OF SALVATION (CDF) 9. In contemporary theological reflection there often emerges an approach to Jesus of Nazareth that considers him a particular, finite, historical figure, who reveals the divine not in an exclusive way, but in a way complementary with other revelatory and salvific figures. The Infinite, the Absolute, the Ultimate Mystery of God would thus manifest itself to humanity in many ways and in many historical figures: Jesus of Nazareth would be one of these. More concretely, for some, Jesus would be one of the many faces which the Logos has assumed in the course of time to communicate with humanity in a salvific way. Furthermore, to justify the universality of Christian salvation as well as the fact of religious pluralism, it has been proposed that there is an economy of the eternal Word that is valid also outside the Church and is unrelated to her, in addition to an economy of the incarnate Word. The first would have a greater universal value than the second, which is limited to Christians, though God's presence would be more full in the second. 10. These theses are in profound conflict with the Christian faith. The doctrine of faith must be firmly believed which proclaims that Jesus of Nazareth, son of Mary, and he alone, is the Son and the Word of the Father. The Word, which “was in the beginning with God” (Jn 1:2) is the same as he who “became flesh” (Jn 1:14). In Jesus, “the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Mt16:16), “the whole fullness of divinity dwells in bodily form” (Col 2:9). He is the “only begotten Son of the Father, who is in the bosom of the Father” (Jn 1:18), his “beloved Son, in whom we have redemption... In him the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him, God was pleased to reconcile all things to himself, on earth and in the heavens, making peace by the blood of his Cross” (Col 1:13-14; 19-20).
