Mohammad in Vatican Council IISt.Alphonsus Ligouri said Mohammad is in Hell, like other Muslims. The saints and popes said the same.Vatican Council II also says
all need faith and baptism for salvation and all need to enter the Church as through a door(AG 7).Mohammad did not have Catholic faith and neither was he baptized with water.
Being saved with the baptism of water and Catholic faith is the ordinary means of salvation.In general
all Muslims need to be visible members of the Church for salvation.
We cannot say that he was saved with the baptism of desire or in invincible ignorance since even if there was such a case , God could send a preacher to baptise the person in ignorance. So every one who enters Heaven is Catholic with Catholic faith and the baptism of water.
Being saved with the baptism of desire etc is a possibility known only to God. There is no such case known to us.Neither can be expect to know, any such case in the present times.
So we cannot meet anyone in the …
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