The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican can clarify the extra ecclesiam nulla salus issue in three simple steps.
They can announce that
1. All Magisterial text with reference to this issue is not to be analysed with a defacto-defacto concept.
Traditionally in the Church and in secular institutions a de facto-dejure analysis has been used. The words de facto and dejure are used in the Introduction to Dominus Iesus. It is explained in secular dictionaries and used in political science and jurisprudence over the years.
This is something objective and rational and not an issue of theology.
2. There is no such thing as an explicit, knowable-to-us baptism of desire. Neither can we humans know in particular who is being saved in invincible ignorance or with a good conscience.
This too is a common sense issue.
3. There is no Church Document, no Magisterial text which retracted or changed extra ecclesiam nulla salus, the ex cathedra dogma Cantate Domino.
Presently there are two versions of extra ecclesiam nulla salus in circulation among Catholics.
1. The Jewish Left media, secular version.
2. The traditional, centuries old version.
The progressivist, liberal version (N.1 above) of extra ecclesiam nulla salus uses
1. A de facto-de facto analysis of the writings of the popes and Church Fathers.
2.Considers those saved in invincible ignorance as being known to us explicitly. So Lumen Gentium 16, for them, contradicts the dogma Cantate Domino.
3. Cannot provide any Magisterial text which indicates that the Church has retracted or changed extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The statements of the popes and Church Fathers are cited as 'proof ‘using the ' defacto- defacto' analysis.This is irrational, contrary to the Principle of Non Contradiction and heretical since it contradicts an ‘infallible statement’ (Pope Pius XII, Letter of the Holy Office 1949); Cantate Domino.
The CDF could announce Point N.1 above and wait for six months as Catholics assimilate it and then announce Point N.2 and then after six months Point N.3. So within a year Catholics will gradually understand the traditional, centuries old teaching on outside he Church there is no salvation as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (845,846), Vatican Council II, Ad Gentes 7, Dominus Iesus 20 etc.
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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/
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010
CDF PLEASE REVIEW MICHAEL MAZZA AND FR. MOST'S ARTICLES ON THE INTERNET FOR DOCTRINAL ERRORS : EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2010/11/cdf-please-review-michael-mazza-and-fr.html
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2010/11/three-commonsense-steps-for.html
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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/
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010
CDF PLEASE REVIEW MICHAEL MAZZA AND FR. MOST'S ARTICLES ON THE INTERNET FOR DOCTRINAL ERRORS : EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2010/11/cdf-please-review-michael-mazza-and-fr.html
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2010/11/three-commonsense-steps-for.html
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