I can say after overdosing on his videos the last week that Charlie’s teaching was more Catholic than 97% of the bishops and priests I have ever met.
Candace Owens recently stated: “I can tell you factually: Charlie was praying the Rosary. Charlie was going to Mass.” Additionally, I am told by a good authority in Phoenix that Charlie and Erika had their marriage convalidated in the Catholic Church the day before his assassination. Thus, more and more evidence is surfacing indicating that God Himself might honor Charlie not just as a political martyr, but perhaps even as a religious martyr.
Of course, many normy Catholics will scoff at my last paragraph: “Silly rad-trad, of course he was a martyr even if he just died a Christian but not a Catholic.” But it’s not that simple. Old school Popes said heretics who shed their blood for Christ do not get credit for martyrdom. That’s why it’s important to figure out if he was a catechumen in his heart, even if not on paper. Well, I can say after overdosing on his videos the last week that Charlie’s teaching was more Catholic than 97% of the bishops and priests I have ever met.
And again, we have Candace’s shocking statement above that Charlie was already praying the Rosary and going to Mass before his untimely death. And she was one of his best friends. Thus, I think he is saved even under a rigorous approach to Extra Ecclesia Nulla Salus. Keep in mind: The early Church considered the catechumenate to be entered upon based what they believed, not what they got on a silly modernist laminated name-tag. Also, Charlie probably attained baptism-by-blood even according to early Roman standards.
But I’m still offering private Masses for Charlie just in case I am wrong. Technically, only private Masses (not public Masses) can be offered for deceased non-Catholics according to pre-Vatican II rules.
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