The Archbishop of Boston disagrees with Cardinal Richard Cushing. There can be people saved in invincible ignorance etc but we do not know these cases and they are no exceptions to the dogma.
The dogma says everyone needs to convert into the Church for salvation and so does Vatican Council II (AG 7).LG 16, LG are not exceptions.
Yesterday I sent the last post on this blog to Mr.Terrence Donilon the Secretary for Communications & Public Affairs, Archdiocese of Boston. Over the the last few years, many times I have been sending these blog posts to the Office of Catechetics , Ecumenism and Inter Religious dialogue and Evangelisation besides other departments. If there is a reply from Mr.Donilon I will post it here.
They are not going to deny the obvious.We do not know the dead saved in invincible ignorance etc.We accept the possibility of non Catholics being saved in invincible ignorance etc.We accept it in faith, in theory.However we do not know any case which contradicts the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus or the interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney.
I am no theologian.Neither am I a great apologist like Michael Voris and Robert Sungenis. I have no academic degrees in scripture, theology or philosophy but one thing I do know - is that we do not know any case of a non Catholic saved in invincible ignorance and the implicit desire. So there cannot be known exceptions to the traditional interpretation of the dogma.
For more information on this issue one can contact Brother.Andre Marie,Prior , St. Benedict Center, Richmond, NH: bam@catholicism.org or Sister.Marie Therese MICM, Prioress, St.Benedict Center convent@cathoicism.org or Mr.Brian Kelly bdk@catholicism.org
(Mailing Address:Saint Benedict Center,Post Office Box 627,Richmond, N.H. 03470 USA. Phone Number:(603 ) 239-6485 Fax Number:(603 ) 239-4502)
-Lionel Andrades
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