Day 118: The Church and Non-Christians (2026)
4/28/202623 min
Fr. Mike examines the relationship between the Church and non-Christian religions. He discusses that while there is some degree of goodness and truth in every religion, the fullness of truth exists in the Catholic Church. Fr. Mike concludes with a reflection on the statement from the early Church Fathers that “outside the Church there is no salvation.” Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 839-848.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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[gentle piano music] Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. In three hundred and sixty-five days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day one hundred and eighteen. We're reading paragraphs eight thirty-nine to eight forty-eight. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It's all the same words. It's great. You can also download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com/ciy. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day one hundred and eighteen. As I said, we're reading paragraphs eight thirty-nine to eight forty-eight. So we're still on the articles, the, the four marks of the Church. The Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Yesterday, we talked about what does catholic mean? Remember, it means universal or according to the totality, in keeping with the whole. The Church is catholic in a double sense, right? Because Christ is fully present in her. The fullness of the means of salvation, the fullness of truth subsists in the Catholic Church, so that fullness, that totality, that universality, but also because the Church is meant to go out to all of the world, like the entire universe essentially. Also, we noted that there's dioceses, and dioceses need to be re- united in faith in their worship of the sacraments, worship of God through the