The encyclopedia authors do not realize that we do not know any one saved in invincible ignorance or implicit desire. So rationally there cannot be an exception to Fr.Leonard Feeney's traditional interpretation of the dogma.
Even the Our Sunday Visitor encyclopedia which has a foreward by two American Archbishops, overlooks this error.
Today morning at a Pontifical University library in Rome I was browsing through some Catholic encyclopedias. They have overlooked the same error.
In Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encylopedia.(Editor. Rev.Peter M.J Stravinskas) on page 862 under the title Salvation Outside the Church is a report which assumes that Pope Pius IX in Singulari quidem, states that invincible ignorance is an exception to the dogma. The pope does not make this claim in the text.
This encyclopedia like the other American Catholic encyclopedias just assume that those saved in invincible ignorance are known to us. After making this superficial observation, they believe that the dogma on salvation and Fr.Leonard Feeney are corrected.
'This understanding of the Church's place in the economy of salvation is also found in the Second Vatican Council II. (p.862 Our Sunday Visitor encyclopedia ). Then it is assumed that Lumen Gentium 16 is an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Vatican Council II cannot contradict the dogma since we do not know of any explicit exceptions.
We do not know any one in 2012 saved in invincible ignorance or a good conscience. Fr. Stravinsky assumes we do.
There is an Introductory Remark in the encyclopedia by Archbishop Anthony J. Bevilaqua and Archbishop Theodore E.McCarrick.
Stravinsky acknowledges 'equivocation' and 'apparent antimony' which he bravely tries to resolve.-Lionel Andrades
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