SSPX priest tries to defend Fr.Gleize

I was speaking to an Italian  priest of the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) last Sunday morning at their chapel in Rome and called his attention to Fr.Gleize saying in a book distributed by the SSPX that there was an exceptional way of salvation which Pope Pius XII referred to in Mystici Corporis.

 

He began to defend the book with theology and I mentioned I was in agreement with him. The problem was in philosophy, empiricism etc.

 

If there was a box of oranges I said and there was one apple in the box then the apple would be an exception because of its color etc but also fundamentally, because it existed in the box. If the apple was removed from the box there would be no exception.

So how can the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance be an exception to the dogma on salvation which says all need to be a visible member of the Church for salvation. We do not know any such case, we cannot see them physically, we cannot meet these persons on earth saved with the baptism of desire.

At first he thought that Mystici Corporis mentions the word exception or says that these cases are exceptions.Then he also assumed like so many other Catholics that other magisterial documents make this same claim.

I cited Ad Gentes 7 which says all need faith and baptism for salvation and also mentions that a person can be saved in invincible ignorance. Vatican Council II (AG 7) does not state that those saved in invincible ignorance etc are known to us, they are visible to us or that they are exceptions. One has to assume this wrongly.

There is no magisteral text which says there is an exceptional way.

Similarly the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 issued during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, does not state there are known exceptions to the dogma on salvation but one can wrongly imply it.

This was the error of Cardinal Richard Cushing who assumed there were known exceptions to the literal and traditional interpretation of the dogma by Fr.Leonard Feeney.The error of Cushingism is there in other books published by the Italian Dictrict of the SSPX whose Superior is  Fr. Pierpaolo Petrucci.

The same error is made on the website and web pages of the SSPX District North America ( SA and Canada).Fr. Arnaud Rostand is the  District Superior (USA).

-Lionel Andrades