Friday, August 30, 2013

Answer to two simple questions show Cushing to be in heresy and not Feeney

Ask two simple questions and see where they lead.These are common sense rational questions and not theology.
The two questions are:-
 

1) Do we personally know the dead now saved in invincible ignorance, a good conscience (LG 16) etc,can we see them, are they physically visible to us in 2013 ? Answer: NO

 
2) Since we do not know any of these cases, there are no known exceptions to the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus ? Answer: THERE ARE NONE.
  
Common sense tells us that there are no known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam defined by three Church Councils and which Pope Pius XII called an 'infallible statement'.
Now apply this knowledge to magisterial texts.Here is one for example.
DOMINUS IESUS
Above all else, it must be firmly believed that “the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mk 16:16; Jn 3:5), and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through baptism as through a door”.77 This doctrine must not be set against the universal salvific will of God (cf. 1 Tim 2:4); “it is necessary to keep these two truths together, namely, the real possibility of salvation in Christ for all mankind and the necessity of the Church for this salvation”.
 
The Church is the “universal sacrament of salvation”,79 since, united always in a mysterious way to the Saviour Jesus Christ, her Head, and subordinated to him, she has, in God's plan, an indispensable relationship with the salvation of every human being.80 For those who are not formally and visibly members of the Church, “salvation in Christ is accessible by virtue of a grace which, while having a mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally part of the Church, but enlightens them in a way which is accommodated to their spiritual and material situation... -Dominus Iesus 20
 
The passage in orange is not an exception to the passage in yellow.
To assume that the passage in orange is an exception to the passage in yellow is irrationality. It is also saying that there are known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. This is heresy.
Cushingism states all do not need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation in the present times and there are known exceptions. Cushingism indicates that the passage in orange is an exception to the passage in yellow.This was the public position of the Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing and the Jesuits there who sought the excommunication of Fr.Leonard  Feeney.

It was Cardinal Richard Cushing who was irrational and in heresy and not Fr.Leonard Feeney.
-Lionel Andrades
 
 
Catholic magisterial documents can be interpreted according to Feeneyism or Cushingism
In a prepared statement for the press the former Jesuit(Fr.Leonard Feeney) added: "The conscience difficulty is that the diocese of Boston, under the auspices of Archbishop Cushing, and Boston College, under the auspices of Father John J. McEloney, S.J., both notably ignorant in the field of Catholic theology ... are teaching that there is salvation outside the Catholic Church." - Father Feeney Is Dismissed From Jesuit Order by Rome (The Harvard Crimson October 29,1949) (Emphasis added)

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1949/10/29/father-feeney-is-dismissed-from-jesuit/

1 comment:

George Brenner said...


Lionel:

" 1) Do we personally know the dead now saved in invincible ignorance, a good conscience (LG 16) etc,can we see them, are they physically visible to us in 2013 ? Answer: NO "

George : I agree

but then with the same reasoning the following must hold true: Do we personally know the dead that we believe are outside the Church are in Hell and not saved in invincible ignorance, a good conscience (LG 16) etc, through the mercy of God, known to God alone and thus can we ever say that they are in hell (the walking dead in eternity) Are they physically visible to us in 2013 and do we have any business saying that we know someone is in hell?
As Catholics we must teach to all and try to convert all that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church that we know of that will bring anyone salvation, BUT leave the mercies to God and usurp judgement itself.

JMJ,

George Brenner