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On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church

Declaration · Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith · August 6, 2000

Restates that Christ is the one Saviour and that the Church of Christ subsists fully only in the Catholic Church, against religious relativism.

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