God creates all men to be saved, and if they are lost, they are, God permitting, lost through their own fault. Christ died for all without exception. Therefore, I say, there is not a single condition of life in which a man, if he wishes, cannot save his soul, It is possible for the Indian, Chinaman, negro; for the infidel, the heretic, and the Protestant. Therefore, you say, outside the Catholic Church there is salvation. No, for if these poor creatures who know not, or are mistaken about, God and His true Church, so live as to deserve heaven, they are really members of the Catholic Church. Again, let me explain. The Catholic Church is a society, and, hence, is a moral person. Now every person has a visible body and an invisible soul, and so, too, has the Church. Her body is made up of the Pope, her head; the bishops and priests, the tongue and hands with which she preaches and ministers; and the great throng that profess Catholicity, partake of her sacraments and are governed by her ministers, are her other members. Now, these members are of two kinds— either live members or dead members. Strictly speaking, live members are Catholics who practise their religion, and are in a state of grace. They belong to the Church's body, and are vivified by her soul, and if they live and die such, they will be saved. Dead members are bad Catholics, paralyzed by sin, hanging on limply to the body of the Church, but not receiving the vivifying influence of its soul — and if they live so and die so, they will surely be lost. Others there are, who belong only to the invisible soul of the
