Fr.Ignacio, Rector, Church of the Annunziata,Rome you cannot change church teachings just so that the Vatican and the Vicariate Rome will allow your community to keep privileges granted to them
The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 referred to the dogma and the dogma indicates all Jews in Boston need to convert into the Church to avoid Hell. This was exactly what Fr. Leonard Feeney taught. So the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 supported Fr. Feeney on doctrine.
There is a controversial book in Italian being distributed in now what has become a controversial Church, The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo,Lungotevere,Roma).
They offer the Tridentine Rite Mass here daily and the priest cannot affirm the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, nor Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II, nor Dominus Iesus 20.They all indicate like Fr. Leonard Feeney and the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 that everyone needs to enter the Church for salvation. The Church is necessary with no exception.
It's important to note that Fr. Leonard Feeney was not excommunicated for heresy. He was excommunicated for disobedience. Over time we realize that he was disobedient to the heretical Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston who taught that there could be people saved in invincible ignorance etc. He postulated this could be known to us in the present times, in specific cases and so it contradicted Fr. Leonard Feeney and the traditional interpretation of the dogma. Really ? How can we know of cases of people saved in invincible ignorance etc in the present times? Who among us knows of a single case of the baptism of desire? Yet this is said in the book being sold (with an offering of five euros) or distributed free at the Church of the Anunziata.
Through this book the founder of this community and all the priests and religious sisters are saying:-
1. Yes, there are people saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire in the present times and they are not known only to God but are also known to us in specific cases.
2. Yes, the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 does refer to ‘the dogma’ the infallible teaching’ and the dogma, indicates all Jews, and other non Catholics, in Boston need to convert into he Church, with no exception, to avoid Hell, but they Franciscans of the Immaculate do not accept this.
Why? Since they want to maintain the lie like everyone else and avoid tension with the Jews and others. They also do not want to be suspended by the Vatican and the Vicariate, Rome who have closed down their magazine Christ to the World (English Edition) since it carried a report ‘Church not Retracted outside the Church No Salvation’.
Their weekly magazine Il Settimanale di Padre Pio had an article critical of Fr. Hans Kung. The community does not realize that it was Fr. Hans Kung who wrote that Vatican Council II (Lumen Gentium 16) indicates that a person can be saved in invincible ignorance etc, so this contradicted the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, implying, that one knew specific cases in the present times.
At the last Conference organised recently by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate in Rome on Vatican Council II one of the speakers Prof. Roberto Mattei said that Vatican Council II was often mentioned with no text cited from Vatican Council II.This is the error of the book being sold by the Franciscans. There is no text in Vatican Council II which indicates that we know of cases of invincible ignorance etc in the present times.
At the Conference it was said that Vatican Council II needed to be interpreted with a ‘hermeneutic of continuity’ and not a hermeneutic of rupture.
For centuries the Church taught that everyone with no exception needed to enter the Church of salvation.This was a hermeneutic of continuity.
The hermeneutic of rupture expressed in the book says that those saved in invincible ignorance etc are known to us in the present times and so they do not have to convert into the church for salvation.
So through the book the Franciscan community is teaching people under the guise of good doctrine that
1. There is text in Vatican Council II which contradicts the dogma extra ecclesia nulla sales.
2. They interpret Vatican Council II with a hermeneutic of rupture.
All this is being taught out of ignorance or because they want to protest their interests?
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