USCCB CONTINUES TO MOCK CATHOLIC FAITH WHILE CDF COMMENT IS AWAITED : FEENEYISM IS THE OFFICIAL TEACHING OF THE MAGISTERIUM
Fr. Peter C. Phan still teaches the theology of religions in Washington and at Catholic universities where he is invited. Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington permits it, just as he permits pro abortion politicians to receive the Eucharist’
The Notification repeated that those who are in invincible ignorance or with the Baptism of Desire do not have to enter the Catholic Church for salvation. Not only is this irrational it is contrary to the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus which says everybody needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church for salvation and there are no exceptions.
Reason it out.
There cannot be an explicit Baptism of Desire. Since it is a gift given by God ‘in certain circumstances’ (Letter of the Holy Office 1949)
There cannot be an implicit Baptism of Desire that we can know. We cannot say in principle that there has been or will be a certain number of Baptism of Desires.
So when I refer to an implicit Baptism of Desire I mean a Baptism of Desire which is just a concept. An intellectual concept. A philosophical concept.
Fr. Leonard Feeney had a concept of the Baptism of Desire in the case of the catechumen who longs to be baptized but dies. The Saint Benedict Centre, NH has given a definition of the Baptism of Desire on its website which I have earlier quoted here. So it is a concept.
The infallible teaching is that everyone needs to be a visible member of the Church for salvation and there are no exceptions. The ex cathedra dogma rejects the Baptism of Desire as explicit or implicit!
Explicitly there is no Baptism of Desire that we can see.
Implicitly, in principle, intellectually we cannot know any case. Not even one as you suggested.
However as a possibility, a probability, as a concept there is the Baptism of Desire.
So can you make sense of the Cushing Doctrine which says everybody needs to be a member of the Catholic Church except for those in invincible ignorance, the baptism of desire and a good conscience.
We do not know any case of the Baptism of Desire, explicit or implicit, and he says that they do not have to be a visible member of the Church.
So why mention it in the first place?
So that Catholics no more say that everybody needs to be a visible member of the Church and there are no exceptions?
So why does the USCCB repeat the same error?
Why do they use the word invincible? Since explicitly or implicitly we do not know of any case of invincible ignorance. We cannot judge. Only God knows if someone is in this category.
If the Church declares someone is a martyr then we accept it. So how can any Catholic say everybody needs to enter the Catholic Church for salvation except for those with the Baptism of Desire and Blood?
No parish, diocese nor the Vatican has issued a statement on this issue. So all the information we have on comes from the secular media and the Catholics who believe that media naively or hold the political left position of the media. Extra ecclesiam nulla salus is now a political issue like homosexuality and abortion.
1. If a Catholic believes Fr. Feeney was excommunicated for saying that there was no explicit or implicit baptism of desire when did the Church ever issue a statement on this? It’s the media which has interpreted the Letter of the Holy Office and Fr. Feeney and his communities’ alleged beliefs.
2. If the media says that the Church accepts an explicit Baptism of Desire then why cannot the media quote a single pope, saint or Church document referring to an EXPLICIT Baptism of Desire? They do not mention an explicit or implicit Baptism of Desire.
3. When a Catholic says that the Church does not teach that everyone needs to be a VISIBLE member of the Catholic Church it is because the media repeats this lie. The Church has said it for centuries and repeated it in 1949 in the Letter of the Holy Office that everyone needs to be a VISIBLE member of the Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.
Baptism of Desire is part of the Church’s teaching I accept. But when you add the word explicit, your assuming it is external. Only the Baptism of water is explicit, external and repeatable. Even a school boy can reason this out?
I do accept that there is a Baptism of Desire and so does Fr. Leonard Feeney and his communities, but only as a concept. Theologically you can call this concept a doctrine. However the USCCB should not tacitly teach that Fr. Feeney did not accept the Baptism of desire as a concept. They do this when the USCCB does not issue a clarification when the media repeatedly says that Fr. Feeney did not accept the Baptism of Desire, not specifying if they mean an explicit or implicit Baptism of Desire.
Theologically there can not be a doctrine of the Baptism of Blood being explicit (visible) for us, nor implicit, i.e. knowable or de jure(in principle).
Theologically there can be a doctrine that God can save someone if he chooses to who has not had the Baptism of water ('without the Sacraments', CCC 1257 ) or who has only the Baptism of Blood to offer Our Lord.
Rationally we can never know any case of the Baptism of Desire, as the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 says it can happen ‘in only certain circumstances’ so it is known only to God.
So Fr. Leonard Feeney was correct in saying that there is no explicit or implicit Baptism of desire which could in any way contradict the ex cathedra dogma .Everyone with no exception needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to avoid Hell.
This is in keeping with Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7), CCC 845 and other Magisterium documents.
It is not in conflict with Lumen Gentium 16 when you realize that there is no explicit, external, seeable, knowable, repeatable Baptism of desire. Since by its nature Baptism of Desire cannot be explcit for us but only a concept.
We can say everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell and there are no exceptions that we know of and if, anyone has the baptism of desire or blood, is in invincible ignorance or has a good conscience on the Day of Judgment it will be known to God only.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Vatican whose Prefect is Cardinal William Levada does not intervene publically.
Now years are passing since Cardinal Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State and Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, President of the Catholic Conference of Bishops, Italy, have stated officially that Jews do not have to convert in the present times. There has been no clarification from the CDF or from the Vatican Public Affairs Department. Orthodox Christians, Protestants, Pentecostals and evangelicals interpret the Bible as saying that Jews need to convert for salvation.
There is no clarification from the Archbishops of Boston and Washington when the Jewish left media says Fr. Leonard Feeney was in heresy because he rejected the Baptism of desire. How can he be in heresy when there is no Baptism of Desire that we can know of explicitly or implicitly?
‘Feeneyism ‘ is the official teaching of the Catholic Magisterium in the past and today. This is what the media wants Catholics not to know. No clarifications and contradictions are accepted on this political issue.
There is no Church Document which states Fr.Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for heresy. The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 refers to disobedience for the excommunication. There is no text in Vatican Council II which condemns him. Lumen Gentium 16 refers to implicit(conceptual) Baptism of desire and so does not contradict Fr.Feeney who said everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church.There is no pope, Church Council or saint who refers to the Baptism of Desire as explicit. So all we have is media propaganda against Fr.Leonard Feeney.
Here is the actual ex cathedra dogma referred to by Pope Pius XII in the Letter of the Holy Office in 1949 and which Fr.Leonard Feeney supported. It makes no mention of explicit Baptism of Desire.
1. “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215). Ex cathedra.
2.“We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.).Ex cathedra.
3.“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) Ex cathedra – from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholicchurch.blogspot.com/
The ex cathedra teaching says everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church.
...it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 302.). Ex Cathedra
...none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation…
...No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” - (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) Ex Cathedra
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