Too many facts point in that direction. Discerning Catholics can see. The bias continues. Sisters, who have been granted canonical status by the Catholic Church, are pejoratively called ‘feeneyites’.
Factual errors are spread on what Catholics should believe and what the Church really teaches that now we have a leftist interpretation of the dogma outside the church there is no salvation.
The errors are so glaring, even a school boy can notice them once informed.
The same propaganda has continued for some 60 years and even educated, sincere Catholics call the Church’s teachings on salvation and non Catholic religions, a ‘mystery’.
Yet Fr. Leonard Feeney had been repeating the same teaching of St. Maximillian Kolbe and others, earlier in that century, and it was not ‘a mystery’.At that time the media was not dominated by the Jewish Left who now catechize Catholics instead of the Church.Over the last few years liberal rabbis have been openly demanding that the Vatican change its teaching on mission and salvation. They want the Vatican to accept a liberal, non traditional and non Catholic interpretation of Vatican Council II which could be closer to a Zionist, one world,one religion agenda.Cardinals Bertone, Bagnasco and Kaspar have obliged and said officially Jews do not have to convert in the present times and the Revised Good Friday Prayer was not for their conversion.
They could also support the Jewish Left rabbis by suspending any priest or bishop who says in public, that Feeneyism is the official teaching of the Catholic Church.
American bishops and the USCCB have also remained politically correct. They have not corrected Feeney-related errors in the media.
These errors have been picked up by Catholic apologists and the media, including EWTN. They assume that this is the teaching of the Catholic Church.
It is claimed that these are changes in the Church after Vatican Council II. Even though these heresies were institutionalised before Vatican Council II, in the 1940’s in Boston.
Really?
Where is the document?
There is no Church Document which says this.
Error n.2: Fr. Leonard Feeney was in heresy for saying there is no Baptism of Desire. Even Vatican Council II and the Letter of the Holy Office say there is.
Fr. Leonard Feeney and his communities today accept the Baptism of Desire as a concept. On the website of the St. Benedict Centre, NH, USA they even have an acceptable definition of it.
However we know rationally that there is no explicit or implicit Baptism of desire that we can know of.
Error 3. Vatican Council II, Lumen Gentium 16 says those in invincible ignorance (implicit faith) can be saved. So this contradicts the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
False, since invincible ignorance, the baptism of desire and having a good conscience are always implicit. They are never externally known. We do not know a single case of the Baptism of Desire etc.
There is no such thing as an explicit Baptism of Desire. We do not know if there has been or will be one in our lifetime. So Lumen Gentium 16 is not an exception to the infallible teaching: everybody needs to be a visible member of the Church to avoid Hell.
Error 4. Pope Pius XII said that they can be saved who have a genuine longing, desire (Mystici Corporis) so non Catholics can be saved in general.
Pope Pius XII used the phrase ‘in certain circumstances’ (Letter of the Holy Office 1949).So he was not referring to the general ordinary way of salvation for non Catholics. It was about a possibility, a probability. The Catechism of the Catholic Church N.1257 says that the Church knows of the baptism of water as the only way to eternal beatitude. The Baptism of water is necessary for all.
So when you review these errors, a discerning Catholic could ask: how could Fr.Leonard Feeney be in heresy, as it is repeated often by the secular media ?
Since the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 does not state that he was excommunicated for heresy. Lumen Gentium 16 refers to only implicit (exceptional) Baptism of desire.
So if there is no case against Fr.Feeney; no factual information to claim he was in heresy, could Feeneyism, be misunderstood?
Check it out!
1: Feeneyism says everyone with no exception needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. Read the actual text of the ex cathedra dogma. He is correct.
2. Feeneyism says there is no explicit or implicit Baptism of desire.
There is no reference to the Baptism of Desire in the text of the dogma.
Baptism of desire by its very nature, aside from the dogma cannot be known explicitly or implicitly.
So, where is the Church document which refutes Feeneyism?
There is none.
The dogma, and so Fr. Feeney, is in accord with Dominus Iesus 20 etc, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Notification on Fr. Jacques Dupuis S.J, the Catechism of the Catholic Church N.845 etc.
So the Catholic Church today like Fr. Leonard Feeney says everyone needs to enter the Church to avoid Hell (Ad Gentes 7) and if there is anyone with implicit faith, invincible ignorance, the baptism of desire etc (Lumen Gentium 16) it will be known to God only.
This means millions of people are oriented to Hell unless they convert before they die.They include Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Orthodox Christians, Protestants, Pentecostals, Jehowah Witnesses and other non Catholics.
‘One thing I noticed’, wrote St. Faustina Kowalski, the Divine Mercy Polish sister, whom God gave the grace to visit Hell and return to tell us about it, ‘was that most people in Hell were those who were surprised to be there’.
Feeneyism is the official teaching of the Catholic Church’s Magisterium, it is said, based on Church Documents. Feeneyites are Catholics in accord with Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14, Unitatis Redintigratio 3 etc). They respect all that is good and holy in other religions(Nostra Aetate) as a preparation for non Catholics to receive the Gospel. They know that other religions are not paths to salvation and there is no theology which can say they are (CDF, Notification Dupuis 2001).
They are aware that educated non Catholics in developed cities of Europe and the USA are all oriented to Hell according to Vatican Council II. (Ad Gentes 7).This was the message also of Pope Pius XII and Cardinal Ottaviani (Letter of the Holy Office 1949) who affirmed the dogma and referred to it as the 'infallilble' teaching.So the last clear and direct public affirmation of the dogma was in 1949.
Feeneyites are Catholics in accord with Vatican Council II,which indicates all informed Jews and Muslims in Rome and Boston are oriented to Hell. They are in accord with the centuries- old unchangeable, infallible Church teaching , extra ecclesiam nulla salus, outside the church there is no salvation.
And they are referring to the ‘rigorist interpretation’ since an infallible teaching cannot have two interpretations.
So if you are a good average Catholic, you are a Feeneyite, just like Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
As more Catholics discern, the media has a struggle to keep the lid on the truth.
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