He is worthy if he affirms in public all the teachings of the Catholic Church.-especially the ex cathedra dogmas. Otherwise he is in mortal sin and not worthy to celebrate Holy Mass.
Cardinal Bernard Law has never publicly affirmed the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Neither in Rome nor in Boston when he was the archbishop there. Instead he allowed Fr. Leonard Feeney to be vilified. He permitted the Jewish Left media to interpret Vatican Council as a break from Tradition. Boston College still reeks and is unchecked.
He is in mortal sin. So how can he celebrate Holy Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary Majors?
He needs to clarify if he accepts and believes in the following ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, which Pope Pius XII called an ‘infallible teaching’ in the Letter to a former Archbishop of Boston (1949).
Here is the ex cathedra dogma.
THE EX CATHEDRA DOGMA EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUSCardinal Bernard Law needs to explain that this ex cathedra dogma is in accord with Vatican Council II. It can not be a break from the Council.
• “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)
• “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.)
• “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.)- from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS) : http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholicchurch.blogspot.com/
VATICAN COUNCIL II
Ad Gentes 7: ‘Therefore those men cannot be saved, who though aware that God, through Jesus Christ founded the Church as something necessary, still do not wish to enter into it, or to persevere in it."…
Ad Gentes 7. … all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door…’.Also see Lumen Gentium 14.
Note in Lumen Gentium 16 and 20 no where is it said that Jews in general do not have to convert. So Vatican Council II (LG 14, AG 7) supports Fr. Leonard Feeney. While LG 16, 20 refer to salvation in ‘certain circumstances’. Vice versa it’s a new doctrine.
Vice versa it would be a rejection of Pope Pius XII referring to those saved with implicit salvation as being in ‘certain circumstances’. Vice versa it would be a rejection of Redemptoris Missio saying that the Catholic Church is the ordinary way of salvtion. It would mean holding the irrational position that the baptism of water is the ordinary means of salvation.
Italian priests Fr. Massimilliano dei Gaspari F.I and Fr. Tullio Rotondo (Don Tullio 3345619866@tim.it Also see Oct.14, 2009 blog: eucharistandmission) confirm that AG 7 refers to the ordinary means of salvation and LG 16 the extraordinary means of salvation.LG 16, 20 is correct according to Catholic Sacred Tradition that there is a possibility of some Jews being saved (de jure) and it is known only to God.
So 1) all people need to enter the Catholic Church with no exemption to avoid Hell and go to Heaven, 2) it is possible for some non-Catholics to be saved(de jure) without the Sacraments and they are known only to God. We cannot discern.
God the Father wants all people to worship Him in the Catholic Church (CCC), God the Father wants all people to be united in the Catholic Church (CCC), the Church is like the only Ark of Noah that saves in the flood (CCC/Church Fathers). Exclusive and explicit entry into the only Church Jesus founded is a necessity (Dominus Iesus 20) for all people with no exception. Though Jesus’ Sacrifice and offer of salvation is available for all people with no exception, to receive salvation, it is necessary to enter the Church and persevere in it (Dominus Iesus 20, Vatican Council II LG 14, AG 7).
‘ALL PEOPLE’ says Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II need to enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell.
The New Testament says that if your brother has something against you first go and be reconciled with him before you make your offering before God. The Gospel of Matthew suggests that the cardinal needs to reconcile with many fellow Catholics in Boston who have been supporting Fr. Leonard Feeney.Like Fr. Leonard Feeney they say that de facto everyone with no exception (baptism of desire etc) needs to enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. This is the extra cathedra dogma. Even after the excommunication against Fr. Feeney was lifted the archbishop remained silent on this issue.
Today Wikipedia on the Internet still says that Fr. Feeney was excommunicated because he held the ‘rigorist interpretation’ of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and rejected the baptism of desire.
If Cardinal Law also says that defacto we can judge who has a baptism of desire and that this is a defacto exception to the dogmatic teaching that everyone with no exception needs Catholic Faith and the Baptism of water to avoid Hell-then this a first class heresy.
In this heretical condition he presides at Solemn Mass in Latin at the papal basilica of St. Mary Majors.
The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,Massachusetts still hold the ‘rigorist interpretation’ of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and receive the Eucharist at Mass. They affirm all the ex cathedra dogmas of the Catholic Church. Does the cardinal agree with their interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus?
So what should Catholics in Rome do? Pray rosaries of reparation outside St. Mary Majors? Or hold protests at the desecration of the Eucharist?
Lionel Andrades
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