Catholic Church Achieve Salvation Analysis

As I have read different texts throughout this semester, I have begun to question some of the teachings that are held by the Catholic church, and how they apply to me. One question that has stuck out to me in particular is, can someone who is outside the Catholic church, or disagrees with some of the teachings of the Catholic church achieve salvation. I believe that anyone, regardless of your beliefs or awareness of religious tradition, can achieve salvation based primarily on doing good works. I am not making an argument for what salvation is or what it consists of, I am stating that performing good works and helping other people around you out of the goodness of your heart is what helps you achieve salvation. Religion is good in the sense that it provides people with moral guidelines and encourages people to take action, but I believe that your belief in God or your …show more content…
Liberation theology originated in the same area that Pope Francis grew up in, and he is using the same ideas to help people who are oppressed today. Another person who participated in liberation theology is Eboo Patel, and his actions are chronicled in his article, “Acts of Faith”. Patel, who is a Muslim started a movement through what he called the Interfaith Your Core, with goals of “intercultural encounter, social action, and interfaith reflection” (Patel, 115). This youth core worked in areas of South Africa that were oppressed by the apartheid, and “they wanted to do some kind of service project and ceremony on that land commemorating its history” (Patel, 117). It did not matter what the race, or religion, or gender that anyone involved in the youth core was, everyone shared in the same goal of trying to rebuild South Africa from the devastation caused by the