THE BOSTON HERESY OF THE ARCHBISHOP INFLUENCED VATICAN COUNCIL II AND THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Therefore those men cannot be saved, who though aware that God, through Jesus Christ founded the Church as something necessary, still do not wish to enter into it, or to persevere in it."-Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II

It is assumed that there can be non Catholics saved in invincible ignorance, the baptism of desire etc and these cases are known to us, for them to be exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and to Fr.Leonard Feeney’s interpretation. So  it is suggested (above) that those who are aware are oriented to Hell. The dogma says every non Catholic is oriented to Hell.

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.

Since the Boston Heresy of the Archbishop and the Jesuits it was assumed that we know those who are saved with a good conscience etc. So  Lumen Gentium 16 indicates  (like in the Letter of the Holy Office on implicit desire) that there are exceptions to the dogma.It implied that those saved in invincible ignorance and a good conscience are exceptions, and it is not  said that we do not know these cases, they are not visible to us and so they are not exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.-Lumen Gentium 14

This line above is a repetition of the one in Ad Gentes 7 and is patterned on the ambiguity in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949.

In the first paragraphs of the Letter Fr.Leonard Feeney is supported and in the latter paragraphs he is criticised.

Similarly Ad Gentes 7 supports the dogma and Fr.Leonard Feeney (blue) and then also suggests that there are exceptions to the dogma (red).

14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism(124) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved. Therefore those men cannot be saved, who though aware that God, through Jesus Christ founded the Church as something necessary, still do not wish to enter into it, or to persevere in it."-Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II

Here is the same pattern in Lumen Gentium 14.The dogma is affirmed then it is suggested there are exceptions.

14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.-Lumen Gentium 14

The same pattern is there in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude...God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.-Catechism of the Catholic Church 1257

846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? (on extra ecclesiam nulla salus as known traditionally)...Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body( there are those who are saved without the baptism of water and they are known to us personally and so contradict the traditional understanding of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.).

The Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing and the Jesuits thought there were known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and so they inserted this error in the Council (1) and the Catechism. It causes confusion. The SSPX assumes the Council and the Catechism are modernist heretical documents.

-Lionel Andrades

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Second Vatican Council.

At the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) Cushing played a vital role in drafting Nostra Aetate...His emotional comments during debates over the drafts were echoed in the final version- Wikipedia