Many in our day, since Vatican Council II, have a dangerously wrong view of the beliefs in Roman Catholicism.
Reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, which says that Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.He was, according to the article, correcting erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council. He also revived the old Latin Mass. This newly approved document restates key sections of a 2000 document entitled, "Dominus Iesus," which states that Protestant denominations were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the "means of salvation."
The news article said this new document states:
"Christ ‘established here on earth' only one church," the document said. The other communities "cannot be called ‘churches' in the proper sense" because they do not have apostolic succession -- the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles.
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