Assuming that the SSPX has received canonical status and works for example in the dioceses of Boston, Worcester, Manchester,USA the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has to remove tension and clarify that Vatican Council II agrees with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Since Ad Gentes 7 supports the dogma while LG 8 and 16 are not exceptions. If they were exceptions it would mean we can spot the dead saved in invincible ignorance etc.
They would have to assure Cardinal Sean O Malley and the other bishops that the SSPX are not ‘spotters’. They cannot see the dead.So they do not know of any exceptions to the dogma on exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church.
Then they would have to assure the cardinal and the bishops that they fully support Vatican Council II and so cannot accept the ‘theology of religions’ or the ‘ecclesiology of communion’ since Ad Gentes 7 says all need Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation.
Then they must assure the cardinal and bishops that they love all Jews and other non Catholics just as Jesus asks of them and they also believe that Jews were the People of God. Vatican Council II (Nostra Aetate 4) says that the Catholic Church is the new people of God.Catholics are now the Chosen People of God.They have the Jewish Messiah,promised by the Jewish prophets, the eternal Covenant and the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass.They have the baptism of water.
-Lionel Andrades
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Father Frederick Faber on Salvation for non Catholics...... A truly great and Holy priest. This applies to Baptism of Blood, Desire and Invincible Ignorance also :
" If the Precious Blood had been shed, and yet we had no priesthood, no Sacraments, no jurisdiction, no sacramentals, no mystical life of the visible unity of the Church– life, so it seems, would be almost intolerable. This is the condition of those outside the Church; and certainly as we grow older, as our experience widens, as our knowledge of ourselves deepens, as our acquaintance with mankind increases, the less hopeful do our ideas become regarding the salvation of those outside the Roman Church. We make the most we can of the uncovenanted mercies of God, of the invisible soul of the Church, of the doctrine of invincible ignorance, of the easiness of making acts of contrition, and of the visible moral goodness among men; and yet what are these but straws in our own estimation, if our own chances of salvation had to lean their weight upon them? They wear out, or they break down. They are fearfully counterweighted by other considerations. We have to draw on our imaginations in order to fill up the picture. They are but theories at best, theories unhelpful except to console those who are forward to be deceived for the sake of those they love–theories often very fatal by keeping our charity in check and interfering with that restlessness of converting love in season and out of season, and that impetuous agony of prayer, upon which God may have made the salvation of our friends depend. (The Precious Blood, page 77) "
The Precious Blood, by Father Faber should be mandatory reading for all Catholics at all levels.
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