Friday, June 18, 2010

DAILY AVVENIRE, SOCIETY OF ST.PAUL SELL NEW AGE BOOK IN ITALY


A full page coloured advertisement was placed yesterday June 17, 2010 in the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference daily newspaper Avvenire. The advertisement by the Society of St. Paul magazine Famiglia Cristiana were selling Richard Back’s Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.

Famiglia Cristiana is the only ‘Catholic’ magazine available in the leftist-Zionist public libraries in Rome (Comune did Roma, Biblioteche). The magazine promotes immodesty in clothes and encourages all types of television programs.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull expresses the concept of reincarnation. Through the life of a seagull, it relates a human beings evolving over many years to perfection. There is no concept of the Catholic Hell and Heaven.

It expressed the Eastern concept of the avatar and perfected being and beings being pefected over many lives.

Bach was a leader of the Theosophical Society, it is learnt, which is considered a forerunner of the present New Age Movement.



Avvenire a few days back published a lengthy article and its photo by Cardinal Carlo Martini S.j. The Italian cardinal sees other religions also as the ordinary way of salvation. He is in harmony with the New Age and has a regular column in an anti Catholic daily secular newspaper in Italy.

A large part of the coloured advertisement was on The Prophet by Khalil Gibran.
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CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYS EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS, OUTSIDE THE CHURCH THERE IS NO SALVATION

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) teaches outside the Church there is no salvation; everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell and there are no exceptions. Just like Vatican Council II the Catechism is in harmony with the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

CCC 845,836 tells us everyone needs to enter the Church to be saved.
N.845 To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son's Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. The Church is "the world reconciled." She is that bark which "in the full sail of the Lord's cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world." According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from the flood.-Catechism of the Catholic Church n.845
"Outside the Church there is no salvation"

846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.-Catechism of the Catholic Church 846
CCC 846,847 like Lumen Gentium 16 refer to implicit salvation, those saved ‘in certain circumstances’ (Letter of the Holy Office 1949).They are known to God only.
847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.-Catechism of the Catholic Church,N.847

848 "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men."-Catechism of the Catholic Church,N.848
Those saved implicitly (CCC 847,848) for us, they are just a concept, something hypothetical, a possibility. It is not explicit. Since it is not explicit it does not contradict CCC845, 836.It does not contradict Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14 and the infallible teaching outside the church there is no salvation.

CCC836 which says all people need to enter the Catholic Church include all Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church, Jesus’ Mystical Body.

If CCC 846,847(invincible ignorance etc) referred to explicit salvation, it would be irrational. Since we cannot judge who has a baptism of desire or is in genuine invincible ignorance.

It would also mean that the Catechism, which the ordinary Magisterium of the Church, is correcting and contradicting an ex cathedra teaching. So it would be a rejection of the dogma on the infallibility of the pope.

It would mean CCC 846,847 (implicit invincible ignorance etc) is a new Christian doctrine or Christian Revelation. Yet this teaching was not mentioned for the first time in the Catechism of the Catholic Church or Vatican Council II (Lumen Gentium16).It was referred to in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cushing. The popes over the centuries always considered those saved by implicit faith as, implicit. Hence the ex cathedra teaching said everyone with no exception needs explicit faith (the baptism of water and Catholic Faith).

So 846,847 do not refer to explicit salvation. Otherwise it would be irrational, illogical and contrary to the Magisterium of the past and present.

The Catholic Church is saying everybody needs to be a visible member of the Church to avoid Hell.

hose who are aware of Jesus and the Church and yet do not enter are on the way to Hell, definitely. CCC is also saying that all non-Catholics in general need to enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. All. If there is anyone among them with the baptism of desire, invincible ignorance etc (implicit faith) it will be known to God only. We cannot judge.
De facto everyone needs to enter the Catholic Church for salvation.

De jure there could be the probability, known only to God, of someone ‘in certain circumstances’ (Letter of the Holy Office 1949) being saved with implicit faith. God will provide all the helps in the manner known to Him only; it could include explicit faith (the baptism of water).

So if someone says the Catechism says that they can be saved who are in invincible ignorance etc, the answer is: 'Yes, as a concept only. In principle.' De facto everyone explicitly needs to be a Catholic to go to Heaven is the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.(CCC 845)

In other words everyone needs to de facto be a 'card carrying member’ of the Catholic Church, everyone needs to have his name on a Parish Register. All who are in Heaven, people of different countries, cultures and times, are Catholics, the chosen people of God, the Elect, the people of the New Covenant.

Here is the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
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/
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IS Abp. RICHARD CUSHING AUTOMATICALLY EXCOMMUNICATED: VATICAN REOPEN THE BOSTON CASE

Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Diocese of Phoenix recently confirmed that Sister Margaret McBride of Phoenix’ Saint Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Centre had incurred an automatic excommunication or latae sententiae excommunication. Sister McBride was automatically excommunicated by her own actions.

Could the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix be asked if the Archbishops of Washington and Boston are also automatically excommunicated? The pro abortion politicians are in mortal sin says the American Archbishop who is the Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal in Rome. If they are in mortal sin, then are not the priests and bishops also in mortal sin who give them the Eucharist in that condition ?

Similarly the late Archbishop Richard Cushing in the 1940s gave us a new doctrine, the Cushing Doctrine, and rejected an ex cathedra dogma. Extra ecclesiam nulla salus for centuries said everyone with no exception needs to explicitly enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. The Cushing Doctrine says those who are in invincible ignorance or have the baptism of desire, do not have to enter the Catholic Church and we explicitly know such cases. They are exceptions to the infallible teaching that everyone defacto needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to go to Heaven.

The Cushing Doctrine, promoted politically by the Jewish Left media and the Jesuits at Boston, is used  even in the present times. The Doctrinal Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) used it. It was cited, even though it is not part of the deposit of the faith, when the USCCB issued a clarification on a book by Fr. Peter C. Phan, a Professor at Georgetown's Department of Theology in Washington.

The USCCB correctly checked Fr. Peter Phan for his many errors .However the actual clarification was vague on
1) the necessity of all people to enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell and
2) ) it emphasized invincible ignorance as if it was opposed to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

To reject or change an infallible teaching is ‘grave matter’. So was Archbishop Cushing in public mortal sin and supported by the media in the 1940s and even today? When the Boston newspapers reported that the Church had changed its teaching on extra ecclesiam nulla salus after the Boston Case, there was no clarification from the Archbishops Office. The Holy Office 1949 issued a Letter to the Archbishop which was not released for three years. The St. Benedict Center was closed  by the archbishop and Fr. Leonard Feeney was expelled for being faithful to the ex cathedra dogma.He approved of the Jesuits removing Fr.Leonard Feeney from the community in Boston.

Here is the ex cathedra dogma.

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, 1441Ex Cathedra  – from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholicchurch.blogspot.com/
Why do we Catholics have to believe in a made-in-USA doctrine that originated in the 1940’s in Boston.We are under no obligation.Since it is not a Christian Revelation nor part of the deposit of the faith. Instead it is the creation of Archbishop Richard Cushing and the Jesuit community there.

When you ask a Catholic today if everyone needs to enter the Catholic Church he could answer yes.Then he could add the mantra ‘except for those in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire’.

Yet before the birth of Richard Cushing the Church always taught that everyone with no exception needed to explicitly enter the Catholic Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.

After the Richard Cushing error became widespread an American Jesuit priest, helped include the confusing line (mantra) in Vatican Council II (LumenGentium 16). He instituionalised the Richard Cushing interpretation of the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

But in LG 16 he did not use the noun explicit nor the adverb explicitly and so he was not faithful really to this new doctrine. Vatican Council II does not say LG refers to explicit salvation.If it did it would be heresy.

So if we interpret LG 16 as did the popes and Councils of the past, then LG 16 (invincible ignorance etc) would refer not to explicit but implicit salvation.It refers only to a possibility, ‘in certain circumstances’(Letter of the Holy Office 1949) and known to God only.

After the 1940’s a major change would be brought into the Catholic Church all over the world by the acceptance of the Richard Cushing doctrine on salvation.

Discerning Catholics ask why do they have to accept this pre-Vatican Council II teaching from Boston. Why do we have to interpret Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church according to the American archbishops reinterpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

The Archbishop of Boston and the Jesuits expelled Fr.Leonard Feeney since he said that everyone needs to explicitly enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell and there were no exceptions. The Archbishop and the Jesuits said he was wrong. They said those who are in invincible ignorance and who have the baptism of desire they can be saved.They were implying that the baptism of desire was explicit and not implicit and so it contradicted the infallible teaching that there were no exceptions to the baptism of water and Catholic Faith.

If the baptism of desire and invincible ignorance refer to explicit salvation it contradicts the ex cathedra teaching extra ecclesiam nulla salus. It also contradicts the dogma on the infallibility of the pope ex cathedra.
It is also irrational since we do not know any particular case, explicitly, of the baptism of desire.
Vatican reopen the Boston case. Justice delayed is justice denied. The ex cathedra dogma says everyone needs to be a visible member of the Church. So does Vatican Council II, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Letter of the Holy Office 1949. Fr. Leonard Feeney affirmed the infallible teaching. He had integrity and courage. Was the Archbishop of Boston in heresy? Are the Jesuits at Boston College still in heresy?
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