Did Cardinal Wojtyla Teach Universal Salvation?
The issue of whether the Pope teaches or taught universal salvation is quite interesting. Fr. Johannes Dormann, in his three-part work Pope John Paul II’s Theological Journal to the Prayer Meeting of Religions in Assisi quotes the following from Cardinal Wojtyla’a Sign of Contradiction: “Thus the birth of the Church at the time of the messianic and redemptive death of Christ coincided with the birth of ‘the new man’– whether or not man was aware of such a rebirth and whether or not he accepted it. At that momement, man’s existence acquired a new dimension, very simply expressed by St. Paul as ‘in Christ.'” (As Dormann notes, “It is . . . a novel belief that the ‘birth of the Church’ was simultaneous with the (supernatural) ‘birth of man,’ of everyman, regardless of whether he knows it or not; whether he accepts it or not.” (Vol I. p. 64.)) The Cardinal goes on to say: “This is the point in history when all men are, so to speak, ‘conceived’ afresh and follow a new course within God’s p
