Do People Who Attend Those Mega-Churches Have a Chance at Heaven?


Jesus’ invitation to the kingdom of God is truly open to all – young and old, rich and poor, saints and sinners alike. The sad divisions that have arisen throughout history cannot change the fact that this invitation is given to all. The Vatican II document on ecumenism notes that

“many of the significant elements… [which] give life to the Church itself, can exist outside the visible boundaries 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” (Unitatis Redintegratio, paragraph 3).

As summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 819, “Christ’s Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation.”

While Catholics believe that in the Catholic Church subsists the fullness of Christ’s body, our brothers and sisters in other Christian communities are also united with us and traveling with us on the same journey to salvation.