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I have. But we can leave those to God. You are not in the same position as they are. You have heard of the Catholic Church, or you would not have written to me concerning it; and the vital question for you, as a non-Catholic, is what you are going to do about it. With the knowledge you have, you are not in the same position as those who do not know as much as you do; and their responsibility before God is not the measure of yours.
No. If ever you become a Catholic you will find that you are not expected to think in such a way at all. In fact, you will find that you are forbidden to do so. For the Catholic Church absolutely condemns the Calvinist doctrine that people are doomed to hell before they are born. No one can go to hell except by his own deliberate choice. If a man is born in a pagan country and has never heard of Christ or of the Catholic Church, the Catholic religion teaches that nevertheless, owing to the redemptive work of Christ, God will give him sufficient interior grace to enable him to attain salvation. How that works out in practice, of course, must be left to God. But one who does realize the truth of the Catholic Church could not possibly make such a provision for pagans an excuse for not joining the Catholic Church.
"THAT CATHOLIC CHURCH
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