MOTHER ANGELICA FOUNDED EWTN CLAIMS POPE PIUS XII WAS FALLIBLE

On the website of Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) founded by Mother Angelica but now with a different management, it is indicated that Pius XII was fallible on a faith-issue. The charge is made by the late Fr. William G. Most in an article The Church and Salvation  placed on the website over years even after being informed of errors.

(Click on Faith, then Teaching ,then The Catholic Church and finally The Church and Salvation)

EWTN states

‘.From the fact that the Church is God's means of giving grace, is it is clear that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church. This truth has even been defined by the Church more than once, e.g., in the Council of Florence in 1442. However we must take care to understand this teaching the way the Church understands it. We just saw that the Church claims the exclusive authority to interpret both Scripture and Tradition. So one like Leonard Feeney who interprets the teaching on the necessity of the Church his own way is not acting like a Catholic theologian at all. The Holy Office, on August 8, 1949, declared that L. Feeney was guilty of this error. Because of his error, he rejected several teachings of the Magisterium, saying they clashed with this definition - but they clash only with his false interpretation, given in private judgment...’ -The Church and Salvation by Fr. William G. Most (Emphasis added)

Fr. Leonard Feeney taught that de facto all people need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation, with no exceptions. He was in accord with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as defined ex cathedra by the Bull Unam Sanctam of Pope Boniface, Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.( ex cathedra, infallibly defined) and Pope Leo X, Fifth Lateran Council 1512-17.

So EWTN is saying that Pope Pius XII is fallible on the issue of extra ecclesiam nulla salus since Fr. Leonard Feeney was allegedly excommunicated for heresy.EWTN disagrees with Fr.Feeney's interpretation and neither will it state that de facto all people need to enter the Catholic Church with no exceptions to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.

To say that de facto there are exceptions to the infallible teaching, the ex cathedra dogma is heresy. It is implying that Pope Pius XII was in heresy and fallible on a faith-issue. This is false.