The most important question many should be asking is, “Can I get to Heaven if I’m not Catholic?” The popular answer is “Yes!” Others wonder. Can we be sufficiently Pro-Life without being Catholic?
Catholic positions are clear: Anyone who knowingly participates in an abortion is automatically excommunicated. Is anyone who supports a Pro-Choice church or denomination also supporting the ongoing slaughter? If so, does the “automatic excommunication” apply? Are such souls kept from Heaven for having, even passively, encouraged abortion?
The Church says that sex outside of marriage is fornication. The last lines in The Book of Revelation list fornicators as being among those who cannot get into Heaven. If a person supports a Protestant organization that does not teach that, can they get into Heaven?
Studies have shown that active homosexuals die at much younger ages. Some of their activities reduce life expectancies by as much as thirty years. Encouraging such life-shortening activities is not Pro-Life. Are those who support Protestant organizations in favor of life-shortening homosexual practices able to get into Heaven?
Some artificial birth control chemicals and devices cause the tiniest of babies to die. The Catholic, Pro-Life position is that life must be protected from unnecessarily early death. Are those who support denominations that accept such practices, and the resultant deaths, able to get into Heaven?
Catholics have worries, as well. If we make excuses to not warn people to avoid denominations and churches that encourage death, whose side are we on?
There is a safe way to get to Heaven. We ignore it at the greatest possible risk. The safest way is to be Catholic, striving to worthily receive Communion. Then, we may be among those whom He separates from the world with His promise: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood, you do not have life in you.”
