• Saint Augustine on the Necessity of Baptism
• The Salvation of the Pre-Columbian Amerindians
• The Forty English Martyrs on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
• The Waters of Salvation
• The Living Magisterium
• Calling Good Evil
• Zenit's Foggy Interview on Salvation
• Reply to a Liberal
• A Letter to Bedfordshire (in Response to Mr. Thomas Sparks)
• What's in That Latin Footnote?
• Father Brian Harrison on the Necessity of Explicit Faith
• The Providence of God
• The Stone Which the Builders Reject
• Speaking of How to Pray
• Jewish Author Says the Dogma is the Root Cause of Antisemism!
• Father Feeney and Catholic Doctrine
• The Popes on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
• The Fathers of the Church on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
• Right-Wing Liberals
• The Absolute Necessity of the Sacrament of Baptism
• Desire, Justification, and Salvation at the Council of Trent
• Orestes Brownson on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
• The Fate of Unbaptized Infants
• Questions and Answers on Salvation by Rev. Michael Muller, C.SS.R.
• Doctrinal Summary

"Outside the Church there is no salvation" is a doctrine of the Catholic Faith that was taught By Jesus Christ to His Apostles, preached by the Fathers, defined by popes and councils and piously believed by the faithful in every age of the Church. Here is how the Popes defined it:

• "There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved." (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)
• "We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff." (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.)
• "The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church." (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.)

But man, following the example of his natural father, Adam, often disobeys the authority of God. The fact that the doctrine had to be thrice defined itself proves the Church's paternal solicitude in correcting her erring children who fall into indifferentism. The first goal of Saint Benedict Center is to defend this doctrine. We present here a selection of various articles written for that end.