What is God’s attitude towards all the religious bodies [which are neither Christian nor Catholic]? He is Love (1 Jn 4:16). He is “the true light which enlightens every man” (Jn 1:9). He ascended the cross to draw all men to himself (Jn 12:32). God, our Saviour, “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2:4).

What, then, does he do in face of all the various obstacles to the apostolic preaching? He enters into a dialogue with each of the souls caught in the toils of those worlds where truth and error, light and darkness, are entangled together. Since graces of contact [by the visible Church and through the sacraments] are out of the question, he sends them graces at a distance.
Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)