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Pope Pius IX ( 1846 – 1878 ), Encyclical Singulari Quidem March 17, 1856 ): " Teach that just as there is only one God, one Christ, one Holy Spirit, so there is also only one truth which is divinely revealed.

There is only one divine faith which is the beginning of salvation for mankind and the basis of all justification, the faith by which the just person lives and without which it is impossible to please God and come to the community of His children ( Romans 1 ; Hebrews 11 ; Council of Trent, Session 6, Chapter 8 ).

There is only one true, holy, Catholic Church, which is the Apostolic Roman Church.

There is only one See founded on Peter by the word of the Lord ( St. Cyprian, Epistle 43 ), outside of which we cannot find either true faith or eternal salvation.

He who does not have the Church for a mother cannot have God for a father, and whoever abandons the See of Peter on which the Church is established trusts falsely that he is in the Church ( ibid, On the Unity of the Catholic Church ).

... Outside of the Church, nobody can hope for life or salvation unless he is excused through ignorance beyond his control.