Fr. Richard P.McBrien, Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Catholicism also assumes we can see the dead. We can see the dead on earth saved in Heaven.
The dissenting priest who is the Editor of the little known Encylopedia of Catholicism on P.5222 has a report under the title Feeney, Leonard.
It says:
‘According to Feeney only Catholics could be saved. The Vatican’s Holy Office rejected his view by distinguishing between those who “rally” (Lat. In re) belong to the Church by explicit faith and baptism for those who belong to the church “by desire” (in voto).
So what?
Those who belong to the Church “by desire” are only known to God. They are irrelevant to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus,which says all need to convert into the Church. One cannot convert 'by desire’ or give anyone the baptism of desire.
It is always implicit for us and explicit only for God, we can affirm, and so could Fr.McBrien if he wanted to, the literal interpretation of Fr. Leonard Feeney along with implicit baptism of desire. It does not violate the Principle of Non Contradiction.
Since for McBrien the baptism of desire is visible and known in real life, it contradicts the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.So he concludes there is salvation outside the Church even though we may not know a single exception in this year or the last 100 years.
According to the University of Notre Dame. Department of Theology, he has been president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1973-74) and winner of its John Courtney Murray Award "for outstanding and distinguished achievement in Theology" (1976). He has written a syndicated weekly theology column for the Catholic press since 1966, and is a frequent on-air network commentator for Church-related events. He is a priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut. He is on sabbatical leave during the current academic year writing a one-volume ecclesiology, which will be published by HarperSanFrancisco in early 2008.
-Lionel Andrades
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