Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle’s position is not known on this issue. He and all the sisters who are members of the LCWR could endorse exclusive salvation being there in only the Catholic Church and there are no known exceptions in 2012.
In the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) 'assemblies, websites, what they do or don't do' it is clear that they are denying the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. They assume there are explicit exceptions to the dogma. So they also believe Vatican Council II (LG 16) denies Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II. The salvation dogma says there is exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church and they cannot affirm it like the Church Councils, the popes in the ordinary and extra ordinary Magisterium, Vatican Council I and II, the Catechisms of the Catholic Church and the saints.
This is heresy. However this is also the position of the Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Luiz Ladaria S.J . The proof is there on the Vatican website of the International Theological Commission.
How can they all represent the Church when they are throwing away the centuries old interpretation of the dogma rejecting Vatican Council II (AG 7) and assume irrationally that those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are explicit and known to us,as if we can phone or fax them.
There should be a substitute functioning group for religious who deny a defined dogma and interpret Vatican Council II with a hermeneutic of rupture and a break from the dogma.
The sisters could ask the bishop delegate his opinion on this subject. Can we throw away an ex cathedra dogma, which Pope Pius XII called an ‘infallible statement’ (Letter of the Holy Office 1949) ? If they reject the literal interpretation of the dogma then Catholics could give up other teachings of the Church which we are all obliged to firmly believe in.
Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has said that ‘The Congregation for Religious has an enormous task.There are new groups coming up all over the world, and there are problematic areas they have to deal with all over.'(1) So it is important for all of them, if this issue is clarified.
In the Diocese of Worcester a religious community of sisters, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, today affirm the literal interpretation of the dogma, reject explicit known-to-us exceptions. They endorse Vatican Council II (AG 7 etc). They have been granted canonical status. So this should be also be possible with the LCWR and the thousands of sisters associated with them.
The sisters could discuss this issue with Archbishop J.Peter Sartain. -Lionel Andrades
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LCWR SISTERS CONFUSED ON VATICAN COUNCIL II AND THE DOGMA EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2012/06/lcwr-sisters-confused-on-vatican.html#links
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