SPES CONTRA SPEM
Et non est in alio aliquo salus. Nec enim aliud nomen est sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvos fieri. Act 4:12 Habere non potest Deum patrem qui Ecclesiam non habet matrem. S.…
Et non est in alio aliquo salus.
Nec enim aliud nomen est sub caelo datum hominibus,
in quo oporteat nos salvos fieri.
Act 4:12
Habere non potest Deum patrem
qui Ecclesiam non habet matrem.
S. Cyprianus, De unitate Ecclesiæ, 6
Foreword: An Accusing Date
The Note A Journey of Hope, drafted for the sixtieth anniversary of Nostra Ætate, bears the signatures of Cardinals Fernández, Koch, and Koovakad. Leo XIV approved it and ordered its publication. It is dated September 16, the memorial of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian.
I do not know whether the authors noticed the irony: St. Cyprian is the Father who bequeathed to the Church the formula salus extra Ecclesiam non est. He taught that he who does not have the Church for his Mother cannot have God for his Father. Under his patronage …