Wednesday, December 21, 2011

USCCB REPORT MAKES ALLOWANCE FOR THE RICHARD CUSHING ERROR

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has placed quotations from the Catechism of the Catholic Church relevant to CCC 846 Outside the Church there is No Salvation. The USCCB does not cite the text of the thrice defined dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.Neither does it explain how in its Notificaton on Fr.Peter C.Phan those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are defacto exceptions to everyone needing to enter the Church.

In none of the quotations from the Catechism of the Catholic Church cited by the USCCB is it said that those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are exceptions to the dogma or Vatican Council II (LG 14,AG 7).

The USCCB Catechesis and Evangelisation Office probably could not cite the text of the dogma because of the error of Archbishop Richard Cushing. He assumed  those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are defacto exceptions to the dogma. This would mean that the baptism of desire is visible to us and we explicitly know cases of those saved in invincible ignorance.If this was true then it would contradict the dogma outside the church there is no salvation. The Archbishop was critical of Fr.Leonard Feeney.(1)

The USCCB has cited many quotations from the Catechism which affirm the traditional teaching of the Church on the dogma but overall a reader would be left confused since the USCCB is trying to accomodate the Cushing error which requires one to read magisterial documents and imply that the baptism of desire etc is an exception to the dogma.

Here the USCCB affirms the dogma.

816
"The sole Church of Christ [is that] which our Savior, after his Resurrection, entrusted to Peter's pastoral care, commissioning him and the other apostles to extend and rule it. . . . This Church, constituted and organized as a society in the present world, subsists in (subsistit in) the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him."(2)

There are no references in the USCCB report to the dogma thrice defined whose text is available in the Wikipedia entry on extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Wikipedia, due to the Cushing Error, assumes Lumen Gentium 16 contradicts the dogma. Lumen Gentium only refers to the Church and the possibility in principle of a person being saved in invincible ignorance.De facto,practically, we cannot meet such a person.
-Lionel Andrades

1.
 http://www.thecrimson.com/article/19...d-from-jesuit/ 
In a prepared statement for the press the former Jesuit added: "The conscience difficulty is that the diocese of Boston, under the auspices of Archbishop Cushing, and Boston College, under the auspices of Father John J. McEloney, S.J., both notably ignorant in the field of Catholic theology ... are teaching that there is salvation outside the Catholic Church." - Father Feeney Is Dismissed From Jesuit Order by Rome



2.
http://old.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.shtml
The Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism explains: "For it is through Christ's Catholic Church alone, which is the universal help toward salvation, that the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained. It was to the apostolic college alone, of which Peter is the head, that we believe that our Lord entrusted all the blessings of the New Covenant, in order to establish on earth the one Body of Christ into which all those should be fully incorporated who belong in any way to the People of God."

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