It’s all over the Internet, in SSPX blogs and websites, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) assumes, those saved with the baptism of desire or invincible ignorance is explicitly known to us. So they assume that the SSPX founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was also talking about an implicit baptism of desire which was explicit and known to us. This is being taught in their seminaries.
The Council of Trent, Pope Pius XII in the Letter of the Holy Office and Mystici Corporis mention a baptism of desire but none these documents claim it is de facto known to us in the present times.
Yet at SSPX seminaries it is being taught that everyone needs to enter the Church formally for salvation (as the dogma Cantate Domino teaches) except for those saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire.
SSPX priests believe in this and so they reject the ex cathedra dogma on extra ecclesiam nulla salus and offer the Tridentine Mass with heresy.
The seminarians are also taught that Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for holding the 'rigorist interpretation' of extra ecclesiam nulla salus and that he did not take into account those saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire.
The dogma Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441 however has the 'strict interpretation' of extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Seminarians have probably not been exposed to the text.
The three errors in the SSPX seminaries are probably just oversights and is not intentional heresy.
1. The baptism of desire and implicit salvation can only be accepted in principle. There is no explicit case that we know of.
2. The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 referred to the 'dogma', the 'infallible teaching'. The dogma Cantate Domino indicates all non Catholics in Boston need to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. This was taught by Fr. Leonard Feeney. So the Letter supported him on the dogma and did not condemn him.
3.Since there is no explicit case of the baptism of desire or invincible ignorance it does not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as it was taught for centuries i.e. everyone needs to be a defacto, formal, member of the Church with no exceptions for salvation.
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