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now we need to talk a little bit about justification before we get Thomas Aquinas what is justification this my friends was that debate the debate at the Protestant Reformation this is Martin Luther's rally cried Luther himself loved Romans in Chapter three he changed it to say by faith alone the Greek does not say alone it says by faith so Martin Luther the heretic changed the Bible to conform to his false teaching but justification is a latin term used to vacatio and it means to make just to make righteous justification now Martin Luther and John Calvin and the Protestant reformers they all said justification is a Latin corruption the original Greek means to be declared righteous to be imputed with righteousness what does that mean being declared or imputed means that you're not really righteous it's like declaring someone a millionaire I'm declaring you to be a millionaire but you're not a millionaire but everyone has to treat you as a millionaire because I in this case God says I say you are a millionaire even though you're not it's called a legal fiction but this is the theology of Martin Luther Martin Luther actually believe this and taught this he believed that were all sinners and that God in a way sends and we kind of take our envelope with our sins written on them and we mail that to God and then God sends us an envelope and we open it and says congratulations you're righteous and we can take this piece of paper and we can frame it and put it on the wall but in reality for Luther and for the Protestant Reformation they didn't believe in an inward transformation that was required they also didn't believe that charity had to perfect faith so you could be the nastiest worst sinner in the world but God declared you just that is Lutheran theology and all you have to do to in a way receive the envelope from God that says congratulations you're a millionaire congratulations you're justified all you have to do is make an act of faith faith alone you don't have to do any good works you don't have to help grandma across the street you don't do any of that you don't have to go to church now they say you should but you don't have to now the council of trent came back at luther and said no no no what happens is is God is in the business of renovation so when we come in to Christ through the sacrament of baptism by faith hope and charity what yes we are disgusting we are sinners but what God does is God actually transforms he makes a new creation in Christ God doesn't want filth in heaven he wants to transform us and make us into as we say in the Catholic Church Saints so in the Catholic doctrine there is justification by which we are made righteous but it's linked to the journey of sanctification that is the process of being made holy or you might even say the process of meat being made a some juice or Assunta a saint now back to Pope Francis he says that Christ died for everyone he died for atheists he died for people and other religions therefore everyone is justified and we've seen Paul says you can see it right there to the to the your left of my head verse 18 therefore as by the offence of one unto all men to condemnation so also by the justice of one unto all men to justification of life is Paul teaching what Francis appears to be teaching is st. Paul teaching universalism I mean think about it when Adam sinned there were no exceptions except for our lady in Christ but he's the second person the Trinity there were no exceptions so someone could argue well when Christ died on the cross his death was so powerful that there are no exceptions just as there's no exceptions with Adam there's no exceptions with Christ and so he can come along like Balthazar or Bishop Baron and say dear we hope that all be saved it seems so because of the parallelism that's made in Romans 5 Pope Francis himself is drawing on this parallelism in chapter 5 of Romans okay well in traditional Catholic theology here's the answer Grace has sufficiency and it has efficiency there is effective grace and sufficient grace I'm gonna put a quote up here this is from Saint Thomas Aquinas from his commentary first Timothy by the way say Thomas Aquinas has the best commentaries can't say that enough please get them one of my prized possessions in my house I should have brought it up here it's downstairs in the library last year I got a I think it's 17th century folio edition latin edition of thomas aquinas commentaries on st. paul it's a beautiful book but this comes from the commentaries of aquinas aunts on st. paul this is first timothy and he says thomas aquinas he is the propitiation for our sins for some efficaciously but for all sufficiently because the price of his blood is sufficient for the salvation of all but it has the efficacy except for the elect because of an impediment okay so sufficient and efficacious here's an example I have 10 friends they get in trouble they're in jail I go down to the jail I pay the bail for all 10 men was my payment sufficient for all 10 men to be Briah yes then the police officer goes in there and says congratulations Taylor can be paid your bail y'all can go five of my friends get up and walk out five say no we like it here we're gonna stay now was the payment that I made for the ten men in jail sufficient to free all ten men yes you might even say you could use the language Taylor came and freed ten of his friends you could use that language but now we have to look at the efficacious outcome of the Act five of the ten men put up with Thomas Aquinas here calls impediment they said no I'm not leaving but that was nice that he paid the price but actually I kind of like the food here and I'm gonna stay in prison that is the distinction that Thomas Aquinas is making between efficacious grace and sufficient grace so we as Catholics say that Christ died for everyone we can even say with Saint Paul in Romans five Christ justified everyone but that justification is not efficacious unless the person receives it by faith unless the person has love for God in Christ unless the person conforms himself to the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Apostles unless that person lives by faith and works all of this is to say unless that person becomes a follower and disciple of Jesus Christ to the very last breath you