Open Letter to Confused Catholics, by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre

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Pages 73-74: “Does this mean that no Protestant, no Muslim, no Buddhist or animist will be saved?  No, it would be a second error to think that.  Those who cry for intolerance in interpreting St. Cyprian’s formula Outside the Church there is no salvation, also reject the Creed, “I accept one baptism for the remission of sins,” and are insufficiently instructed as to what baptism is.  There are three ways of receiving it: the baptism of water; the baptism of blood (that of martyrs who confessed their faith while still catechumens); and baptism of desire.  Baptism can be explicit.  Many times in Africa I heard one of our catechumens say to me, “Father, baptize me straightaway because if I die before you come again, I shall go to hell.”  I told him, “No, if you have no mortal sin on your conscience and if you desire baptism, then you already have the grace in you...”[1]

Here we find more heresy against the dogma Outside the Catholic Church There is No Salvation from Bishop Lefebvre.

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[1] Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics, Angelus Press, pp. 73-74.