20. With respect to the question of the necessary requirements for a priest to be held idoneus (“qualified”) to celebrate in the forma extraordinaria, the following is hereby stated:a.) Every Catholic priest who is not impeded by Canon Law7 is to be considered idoneus (“qualified”) for the celebration of the Holy Mass in the forma extraordinaria.- Universae Ecclesiae, ECCLESIA DEI,Instructionon the application of the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum ofHIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI given Motu Proprio30 April, 2011, Cardinal William Levada, Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,Vatican.
Last Sunday at 10.30 a.m I attended the Tridentine Rite Mass held at the Church of the Annunziata, near the Vatican. The Mass was offered by a priest of the community Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.
I wonder if he meets the conditions of Universae Ecclesiae to offer Mass especially with reference to N.20.
We know that a priest in public mortal sin is not to offer Mass according to Canon Law. We also know that it is a grave sin to reject in public an ex cathedra dogma. Here is the dogma that the Franciscan community is unable to affirm in public.
“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
The OMI priest Fr.Tissa Balasuriya was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II for rejected the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady.
If the priest who offered Mass last Sunday cannot affirm the above dogma in public it is a violation of Canon Law . He also does not meet the conditions of Universae Ecclesiae N.20 to celebrate Holy Mass.
Cantate Dominio is in accord with Vatican Council II, Ad Gentes 7.
Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door.-AG 7
Note: All need the baptism of water for salvation and Catholics only give baptism to adults with Catholic Faith. So Ad Gentes 7 is saying that all people need Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation.
The same message is repeated in Dominus Iesus (2000)
This doctrine must not be set against the universal salvific will of God (cf. 1 Tim 2:4); “it is necessary to keep these two truths together, namely, the real possibility of salvation in Christ for all mankind and the necessity of the Church for this salvation”.-Dominus Iesus 20
If there is an objection with reference to Lumen Gentium 16 it is a straw man. LG 16 does not say that we know any case of invincible ignorance in the present times.
Those also can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience.-Lumen Gentium 16, Vatican Council II.
So Lumen Gentium 16 does not contradict extra ecclesiam nulla salus or Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II. There is no text in Vatican Council II which contradicts the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
If there is an objection that Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for affirming extra ecclesiam nulla salus, this is a falsehood. The dogma referred to in the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston 1949 indicates that all Jews in Boston need to convert into the Church to avoid Hell.
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 (Emphasis added)
So the Letter of the Holy Office supported Fr. Leonard Feeney on doctrine. The dogma (above) indicates all Jews in Boston need to convert into the Church to avoid Hell. This was exactly what Fr. Leonard Feeney taught.
So when a priest offers the Latin Tridentine Rite Mass then he needs to affirm the dogma when asked. Otherwise he is in grave public sin, when it is known to many, as in the case of the priests in Rome who offer the extraordinary form of the Mass and deny the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and this is known to many.
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