Cardinal Sean O’Malley and the Auxiliary bishops of Boston, Bishop Robert McManus, bishop of Worcester and Bishop Peter Libasci, bishop of Manchester agree that there is nothing in Vatican Council II which contradicts the dogma outside the church there is no salvation.
I have been sending these blog posts to them and to others in the dioceses, to the ministries and communities. No one has issued a clarification, correction or denial.
In general otherwise, religious agree that we do not know the dead; we do not know those saved in invincible ignorance and a good conscience (LG 16).
The cardinal-archbishop of Boston, Sean O ‘Malley indicates that the Catholic Church agrees with the literal interpretation of Fr. Leonard Feeney, a doctrinal position personally he may not welcome but in reality has to acknowledge.
When Cardinal Sean O'Malley says there are no known exceptions on earth, to the dogma, he is saying that every one needs to enter the Church with Catholic Faith and the baptism of water (AG 7) for salvation.
If Cardinal Sean 0’Malley and the other bishops state that there are known exceptions it would mean they can see the dead.
Cardinal Sean 0’Malley now affirms the literal interpretation of the dogma just like Fr. Leonard Feeney who was expelled from Boston College along with Catholic professors. We have come back in a full circle. The then archbishop of Boston, Richard Cushing (1944-1970) placed restrictions on Fr. Leonard Feeney’s priestly faculties since Archbishop Cushing believed that there were known exceptions to the traditional interpretation of the dogma on salvation.
One of the Catholic professors dismissed from Boston College for supporting Fr. Leonard Feeney was Bro. Francis MICM. He was the founder of the religious community in Manchester, which has held on to the interpretation of Fr. Leonard Feeney and maintained the truth of the Faith, for all of us, in confusion.-Lionel Andrades
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