Poly 102 – Salvation & World Religions

Can people from other religions be saved? If faith in Christ and Baptism are necessary for salvation, then what about those who have never heard the Gospel or been baptized? We are only saved by Jesus and through his life, death, and Resurrection, but can God work outside of the normal means of the sacraments to allow others to enter into the mystery of Christ without an explicit faith in Christ? If others can be saved, then why evangelize? 

Church documents referenced:

Lumen Gentium : https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

Dominus Iesus : http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html

Nostra Aetate : https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html