"Outside the Church there is no salvation."

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In our contemporary society of agnosticism and relativism, it is not rare to find persons, generally with little doctrinal formations, who maintain that "all religions are the same." For them , the only thing that matters in order to be saved is to believe in God and to fulfill one's duties to his neighbors. All other things, like dogma, morals and worship, are just the results of conditioning from different environments and cultures. In short, they say, all religions are the same as long as you practice it in good faith. This old line of thought has been repeatedly rejected by the Magisterium of the Church. The position is called religious indifferentism, and can be formulated as, "Men who live in error and far away from the true faith and the catholic unity can achieve eternal salvation." On the other hand, many other saints and popes have taught otherwise. They made statements throughout the history of the Church usually expressed as "extra ecclesiam nulla salus." Comments?