Will Humans Have Freewill in Heaven?

[Randy Carson]

No, Rhonda. You are wrong. Catholics do not believe Protestants are going to fry when they die. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains it this way:

817 In fact, "in this one and only Church of God from its very beginnings there arose certain rifts, which the Apostle strongly censures as damnable. But in subsequent centuries much more serious dissensions appeared and large communities became separated from full communion with the Catholic Church - for which, often enough, men of both sides were to blame." The ruptures that wound the unity of Christ's Body - here we must distinguish heresy, apostasy, and schism - do not occur without human sin:

Where there are sins, there are also divisions, schisms, heresies, and disputes. Where there is virtue, however, there also are harmony and unity, from which arise the one heart and one soul of all believers.

818 "However, one cannot charge with the sin of the separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from such separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers . . . . All who have been justified by faith in Baptism are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as brothers in the Lord by the children of the Catholic Church."

819 "Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth" are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: "the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements." Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church. All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him, and are in themselves calls to "Catholic unity."

Yeah they always make it look good on paper, but in de facto I'm not wrong in what I say about what many Catholics think. The Catholic Church is not known for it's tolerance of what it views as heresy especially if the "Apostle construes it as damnable."

Oh, okay.

So rather than go with what the Catholic Church has published about its views of other Christians, it would be best to take the word of an atheist posting in an atheist forum on the Internet who is giving us the skinny on what she claims "many Catholics think."

That's about as authentic as it gets around here, I guess.