Archbishop Gerhard Muller interpreted Lumen Gentium 14 as contradicting the literal interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
In the interview with the National Catholic Register (Oct.2,2012) (1) the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith interpreted Lumen Gentium 14(LG 14) as a break from tradition.he also used an irrationality and a false premise, perhaps, unknowingly.The CDF, Prefect may not have known also, that he was expressing heresy in public.
We can interpret LG 14 with a hermeneutic of continuity or a break from tradition. He chose the latter.
A. LG 14 indicates God will judge who knew about Jesus and the Church and did not enter and who did not know. This has the hermeneutic of continuity.Since only God can judge, we do not know these cases . Since we do not know these cases, who knew or did not know, there are no exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.LG 14 does not contradict the dogma which says every one needs to convert into the Church for salvation.
B. LG 14 indicates for the Archbishop that we can judge and know who is saved in invincible ignorance and who is not.So every body does not have to enter the Church.Only those who know need to enter.This is a a break with Tradition; the dogma and the Syllabus of Errors.
The Archbishop’s interpretation (B) is irrational since we humans cannot judge. These cases are not known to us in the present times.So this interpretation is non traditional and irrational.It’s a new doctrine.It is also heresy since it alleges a defined dogma on salvation has explicit exceptions.
In public Archbishop Muller is denying the dogma allegedly in the name of Vatican Council II (LG 14).
There are two interpretations of LG 14 and its the Archbishop’s interpretation which denies the dogma with an irrationality. He uses the false premise of the dead- saved and visible to him, who are known exceptions to the dogma.So since he knows these cases everyone does not need to convert into the Church but only those whom he knows, knows.
The interpretation (A) is in accord with the SSPX chapter statement (July 19,2012) which says there is salvation in only the Catholic Church and there are no exceptions. The SSPX could choose to interpret LG 14 as a continuity with the dogma and tradition.
The SSPX could respond to Archbishop Gerhard Muller by showing him that there is an interpretation of Vatican Council II in accord with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the SSPX could ask the CDF Prefect to accept it. The SSPX will continue to reject heretical interpretations of Vatican Council II.-Lionel Andrades
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Archbishop Gerhard Müller: 'The Church Is Not a Fortress'
Do you, nevertheless, accept there’s been a weakening of the Church’s teaching because of this underlying confusion of terminology? One example sometimes cited is that the teaching of “no salvation outside the Church” seems to have become less prominent.
That has been discussed, but here, too, there has been a development of all that was said in the Church, beginning with St. Cyprian, one of the Fathers of the Church, in the third century. Again, the perspective is different between then and now. In the third century, some Christian groups wanted to be outside the Church, and what St. Cyprian said is that without the Church a Christian cannot be saved. The Second Vatican Council also said this: Lumen Gentium 14 says: “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.” He who is aware of the presence of Revelation is obliged by his conscience to belong publicly — and not only in his conscience, in his heart — to this Catholic Church by remaining in communion with the Pope and those bishops in communion with him.
But we cannot say that those who are inculpably ignorant of this truth are necessarily condemned for that reason. We must hope that those who do not belong to the Church through no fault of their own, but who follow the dictates of their God-given conscience, will be saved by Jesus Christ whom they do not yet know. Every person has the right to act according to his or her own conscience. However, if a Catholic says today, “I am going to put myself outside the Church,” we would have to respond that without the Church that person is in danger of losing salvation.
Therefore, we must always examine the context of these statements. The problem that many people have is that they are linking statements of doctrine from different centuries and different contexts — and this cannot be done rationally without a hermeneutic of interpretation. We need a theological hermeneutic for an authentic interpretation, but interpretation does not change the content of the teaching.
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