Salvation is a gift from God, made possible through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ which involves being reconciled with God and receiving forgiveness for sins. But is salvation a process that involves the Church, which is the body of Christ, or are we saved by “faith alone” as some Protestant/evangelical/fundamentalist Christians believe? And what does the Church really teach about the often misunderstood Catholic axiom “extra ecclesiam nulla salus” (outside the Church there is no salvation)?