RCC and Ben Shapiro

Guest. Okay so I promised awkward questions and so there shall be. So let's start with the most awkward of the awkward questions. Yeah I don't really care about this question particularly much but I get this question a lot which is yeah as a Jew how does it feel that there are other religions that don't think you're getting into heaven.

So let me ask you what's the Catholic view on who gets into heaven and who doesn't. I feel like I lead a pretty good life a very religiously based life in which I try to keep not just the Ten Commandments but a solid six hundred and three other Commandments as well and I spend an awful lot of my time promulgating what I would consider to be Judeo-Christian virtues particularly in Western societies.

So what's the Catholic view of me. Am I basically screwed here. No the Catholic view. Go back to the.

Second Vatican Council says it very clearly. I mean Christ is the privileged route to salvation. May God so love the world that gave his only son that we might find eternal life. So that's the the privileged route.

However Vatican to clearly teaches that someone outside the explicit Christian faith can be saved now. They're saved through the grace of Christ indirectly received. So I mean the grace is coming from Christ but it might be received according to your conscience.

So if you're following your conscience sincerely or in your case you're following the commandments of the law sincerely yeah you can be saved now. That doesn't conduce to a complete relativism. I mean we still would say the privileged route.

And and the the route that God has offered to humanity is the route of his son. But no you can be saved. Even Vatican to says an atheist of goodwill can be saved because in following his conscience if he does John Henry Newman said the conscience is the aboriginal vicar of Christ in the soul.

It's very interesting characterization that it is in fact the voice of Christ if he's the Logos made flesh. Right. He's the divine mind or reason made flesh that when I follow my conscience I'm following him whether I know it explicitly or not.

So even the atheist Vatican to teaches of goodwill can be.

Saved so is Catholicism.