By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews, Sept. 20, 2024
The priest and canon lawyer said that ‘the impression given to people is that Catholicism is not serious anymore about converting everybody, but in fact that’s the central mission.’
(LifeSiteNews) — Renowned canon lawyer Father Gerald Murray denounced Pope Francis’ claim that “every religion is a way to arrive at God” as “contradictory to what Christ himself said.”
“Jesus Christ said, ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,’ and the Church teaches that there is only salvation in Christ,” Murray said during an appearance on the Thursday episode of EWTN’s The World Over with host Raymond Arroyo.
Murray pointed to Pope John Paul II’s Declaration Dominus Jesus as an expression of the definitive teaching of the Church, quoting the former pope’s statement, “it is clear that it would be contrary to the faith to consider the Church as one way of salvation alongside those constituted by the other religions.”