No Salvation Outside the Church

The Catholic Thing · Jul 21, 2026 · 6m

By Randall Smith How many of these can you identify? Marcionites, Montanists, Sabellians, Donatists, Quartodecimans, Pneumatomachians, Apollonarians, Monophysites, Nestorians, Waldensians. These are all groups that broke from the Church, insisting that they were the true Church while others were somehow less pure or less faithful. Even if you could identify some or all of them, where are they now? At one point, they welcomed thousands. Now, they're just names almost no one knows. Many of them had interesting arguments and complaints. The Donatists, for example, had a rigorous moral code and…