Sunday, August 4, 2013

SSPX is not following Tradition : Quanto Conficiamur Pope Pius IX problem

The Society of St.Pius X(SSPX) bishops have stated that they are waiting for the rest of the Catholic Church to get back to Tradition and they reject Vatican Council II which is non traditional.The SSPX is not traditional in its interpretation of Quanto Conficiamur, Mystici Corporis, Letter of the Holy Office 1949 etc. While interpreting these magisterial documents the SSPX irrationally assumes there are known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
 
 The SSPX bishops and priests are saying that they can see the dead saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire who are known exceptions to the dogmatic teaching on all needing to convert into the Church, 'as through a door'(CCC 846) in the present times.
 
This is not part of the Deposit of Faith nor Tradition.Instead this is a non traditional interpretation of the SSPX which is a break with Tradition, the dogma on salvation and the Syllabus of Errors.
 
The SSPX has  extended this irrationality to a book written by Fr.Francois Laisney on Fr.Leonard Feeney and which is sold by the  SSPX (USA) Angelus Press.This irationality is also extended to Vatican Council II and so they assume that the Council is a break with the past on other religions, on an ecumenism of return and religious liberty in a Catholic political state.
 
The SSPX needs to come back to Tradition first as an example to the Vatican Curia.
For example in Quanto Conficamur Pope Pius IX has not stated that we can physically see those who are struggling with invincible ignorance about our most holy religion...'.
 
Yet the SSPX like the liberals and the Americanist movement  of the 1930's and 40's assumes we can physically see these cases for them to be relevant to   'the Catholic teaching that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church. Eternal salvation cannot be obtained by those who oppose the authority and statements of the same Church and are stubbornly separated from the unity of the Church and also from the successor of Peter, the Roman Pontiff, to whom "the custody of the vineyard has been committed by the Savior."[4] The words of Christ are clear enough: "If he refuses to listen even to the Church, let him be to you a Gentile and a tax collector;"[5] "He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you, rejects me, and he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me;"[6] "He who does not believe will be condemned;"[7] "He who does not believe is already condemned;"[8] "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters."[9] The Apostle Paul says that such persons are "perverted and self-condemned;"[10] the Prince of the Apostles calls them "false teachers . . . who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master. . . bringing upon themselves swift destruction. -  Quanto Conficaumur Pope Pius IX (1)

The error which the SSPX makes in the Fr.Leonard Feeney case they extend  also to Quanto Conficamur. This is not tradition.Pope Pius IX could not be a break with the past, a break with the defined dogmas of Church Councils.
-Lionel Andrades
 
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7. Here, too, our beloved sons and venerable brothers, it is again necessary to mention and censure a very grave error entrapping some Catholics who believe that it is possible to arrive at eternal salvation although living in error and alienated from the true faith and Catholic unity. Such belief is certainly opposed to Catholic teaching. There are, of course, those who are struggling with invincible ignorance about our most holy religion...
8. Also well known is the Catholic teaching that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church. Eternal salvation cannot be obtained by those who oppose the authority and statements of the same Church and are stubbornly separated from the unity of the Church and also from the successor of Peter, the Roman Pontiff, to whom "the custody of the vineyard has been committed by the Savior."[4] The words of Christ are clear enough: "If he refuses to listen even to the Church, let him be to you a Gentile and a tax collector;"[5] "He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you, rejects me, and he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me;"[6] "He who does not believe will be condemned;"[7] "He who does not believe is already condemned;"[8] "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters."[9] The Apostle Paul says that such persons are "perverted and self-condemned;"[10] the Prince of the Apostles calls them "false teachers . . . who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master. . . bringing upon themselves swift destruction."-Quanto Conficiamur,Pope Pius IX,1863 
 
 

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