EWTN THE LETTER OF THE HOLY OFFICE 1949 AFFIRMED THE DOGMA WHICH INDICATES ALL JEWS IN BOSTON NEED TO CONVERT INTO THE CHURCH TO AVOID HELL

The Eternal Word Television Network has a report on its website The Church and Salvation by Fr. William G. Most (To access it click on Faith, then Teachings, then Catholic Church and finally on The Church and Salvation)

EWTN states:

So one like Leonard Feeney who interprets the teaching on the necessity of the Church his own way is not acting like a Catholic theologian at all. The Holy Office, on August 8, 1949, declared that L. Feeney was guilty of this error. Because of his error, he rejected several teachings of the Magisterium…- The Church and Salvation by Fr. William G. Most

Here is the Letter :

Now, among those things which the Church has always preached and will never cease to preach is contained also that infallible statement by which we are taught that there is no salvation outside the Church.

However, this dogma must be understood in that sense in which the Church herself understands it. For, it was not to private judgments that Our Savior gave for explanation those things that are contained in the deposit of faith, but to the teaching authority of the Church…-Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston

Here is the ‘dogma’ the ‘infallible’ teaching referred to by the Letter.

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, 302.). 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/

The dogma above indicates that all Jews in Boston need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation.

This is exactly what Fr. Leonard Feeney had been saying.

So the Letter supported Fr.Leonard Feeney on doctrine (dogma).

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