According to magisterial texts there is no such case as a known-to- us baptism of desire or being saved in invincible ignorance.Similarly those who are saved with 'elements of sanctification and grace'(LG 8) or 'imperfect communion with the church' (UR 3) etc are not known in particular cases in 2013. So they cannot be exceptions to all needing faith and baptism to go to Heaven and avoid Hell (AG 7).
This is the un-official teaching of the Catholic Church,with the irratonal visible to us salvation in the present times, which is being promoted by the secular media, Pontifical Universities in Rome and also the Vatican Curia and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith itself.
According to the official teaching of the Church in magisterial texts, before and after Vatican Council II,(1) all non Catholics need to visibly convert into the Catholic Church for salvation.If there is any person saved without formally entering the Catholic Church he would not be known to us to be an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. We cannot see these cases-saved in Heaven.
Similarly all Christians need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation, since they do not have Catholic Faith (AG 7), they do not have the moral and faith teachings of the Catholic Church which are necessary to avoid Hell.Neither do they have access to the Sacraments of the Church through which Jesus saves. So there can only be 'an ecumenism of return', according to the official teaching of the Catholic Church.
Since the official teaching says outside the church there is no salvation (AG 7, CCC 846 etc) as understood by Fr.Leonard Feeney there is a moral obligation for Catholics to work for a Catholic political state.
Presently the unofficial teaching of the Catholic Church is being used by the SSPX, Neo Cathecumenal Way, Charismatic Renewal Movement, Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans etc. Popes Francis and Benedict were using the unofficial teaching of the Catholic Church with no support from Magisterial texts. The magisterial documents (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Dominus Iesus etc) approved by Pope John Paul are contradicted and so also is the dogma on salvation defined by past popes ex cathedra.
-Lionel Andrades
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