Saturday, July 17, 2010

ECCLESIA DEI IF MANCHESTER, BOSTON DIOCESES PROMOTE PAUL KNITTER AND PAULISTS FATHERS WHY IS DOCTRINE AN ISSUE WITH THE SSPX?

Ecclesia Dei has approved the Sisters of St. Benedict Centre, Worcester as being a centre for the Tridentine Rite Latin Rite Mass. They have also been accepted by the diocese of Worcester who have granted them canonical status. Their community was founded by the late Fr. Leonard Feeney. They interpret the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as everyone needing to enter the Catholic Church to go to Heaven and there are no exceptions. So when Ecclesia Dei says Fr. Leonard Feeney died in full communion with the Catholic Church and his spiritual descendents are also in full communion, as the men and women communities in Worcester, then it would mean they are not in heresy or in mortal sin.

What about those religious communities or parishes that do not interpret the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as do the Sisters of St. Benedict Centre, Worcester or worse still teach a ‘theology of religions’?

On the E-News of the website of the Diocese of Manchester, USA is a notice for Catechists who would like to attend a talk by Paul K. Knitter who advocates religious pluralism.He  sees different religions as equal paths to salvation and in a newspaper interview recently still calls himself a Catholic.

Meanwhile evangelization courses are offered in the diocese by the Paulist Fathers who also advocate a theology of religions.The following quotation is from the website of the Paulist Fathers.


Does this leave room for other religions to have a positive role in God's plan for the salvation of all?
When these two axioms of faith are held together, a Christian theology of religions can be characterized by an openness and a commitment to explore the many and various ways in which God has spoken to all people. To say that Christ is at the center of the divine plan for humanity is not to consider him as the final goal and exclusive end toward which the religious life of all other traditions of humanity tend. He is constituted by God as the way leading to God. God (the Father) remains the goal and end. The proper end of the interreligious dialogue, according to some Christian theologians today, is the common conversion of Christians and the members of other religious traditions to the same God—the God of Jesus Christ—who calls them together by challenging the ones through the others.-from the website of the Paulist Fathers, Frequently Asked Questions, Ecumenism and InterFaith Relations.(Emphasis added)
The Paulist Fathers understanding of the Catholic Church is not that everyone needs to enter the Church to avoid Hell (ex cathedra extra ecclesiam nulla salus) but that all people need to come to the one God,  God the Father.


The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by Pope John Paul II's motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his Society of St. Pius X as bishops on 30 June 1988, an act the Holy See deemed illicit and schismatic.
The Pontifical Commission was given additional functions by the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, issued by Pope Benedict XVI on 7 July 2007, to exercise the authority of the Holy See, supervising the observance and application of the dispositions of that motu proprio...
In his letter of 10 March 2009 concerning his remission of the excommunication of the four bishops of the Society of St Pius X, Pope Benedict XVI announced his intention to join the Commission to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.(Wikipedia)
Cardinal William Levada is the President of Ecclesia Dei. In  2006 Ecclesia Dei regularised the community of priests the Institute of the Good Shepherd who belonged to the Society of St Pius X (SSPX). Negotiations are continuing with the SSPX. The secular newspapers allege that the SSPX do not accept Vatican Council II. The SSPX claim that the Vatican needs to affirm Catholic doctrine.No list has been provided by the Vatican of the doctrines being discussed.

Ecclesia Dei, if the Archdiocese of Boston and the Diocese of Manchester can promote Paul Knitter and the Paulist Fathers why is doctrine being made an issue with the SSPX?

Paul Knitter and the Paulists Fathers have the approval of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The USCCB’s Doctrine Committee is headed by Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington. Archbishop Wuerl permits Mass to be celebrated by Fr.Peter C.Phan and Fr.Dan Madigan S.J in Washington both are promoters of the theology of religion. The Archbishop also does not believe that he is in mortal sin for giving the Eucharist to pro abortion politicians.

In Boston there is a centre for the offering of the Tridentine Rite Mass and this should be of concern to Ecclesia Dei. Does not a priest who offers the Latin Rite Mass also have to affirm the infallible teaching, thrice defined, which says everybody needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to avoid Hell?

Would a Paulist Father be allowed to offer the Tridentine Rite Mass by Ecclesia Dei? Also the Bishop of Manchester Bishop John B. McCormack ?

Paul F.Knitter who considers different religions as equal paths to salvation, which is also the educational policy of the Jesuit Boston College is the key speaker at the Third Boston College Symposium on Interreligious Dialogue - October 7-9, 2010.

According to the Catechetical Leaders and Catechists News on the Manchester  Diocese website a theologian who has been corrected by Cardinal Ratzinger (non formally), will be the main speaker at a program organised by Boston College.

The theology of religions was corrected by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 2001 when a Notification was issued on the book by  Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J., Towards a Theology of Religious Pluralism. 
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