Not long ago I got two converging questions from two divergent points of view, one from a lapsed Catholic friend and one from a conservative Catholic believer.
My lapsed Catholic friend, troubled by my belief that the Catholic faith is the unique and definitive way of salvation, wanted to know whether I thought that only Catholics would be saved.
My conservative Catholic friend, concerned by my high regard for non-Catholic Christians like Billy Graham and C.S. Lewis and by my respect for the piety of non-Christian believers, including devout Jews and Muslims, wanted to know whether I thought there was any great need for evangelization if non-Catholics can be saved.
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