Thursday, January 16, 2014

Bolt on the road to Damascus needed- FFI

What would happen to a Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate priest if he said he accepts Vatican Council II in prefect agreement with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the Syllabus of Errors. 
Would he be told to leave the Congregation by Fr. Fidenzio Volpi, Capuchin, the Apostolic Commissioner appointed by the Holy See for the Franciscans of the Immaculate. ?
During the pontificate of Pope  Benedict XVI  the FFI priests whom I knew did not want to affirm in public the dogma on exclusive salvation.
They also misinterpreted Vatican Council II. They took for granted  that the Council contradicted the dogma and the Syllabus of Errors. The FFI's theologians, Bruno Gheradini, Roberto Matteo and others, could never understand that a wrong premise was being used throughout in the interpretation of Vatican Council II.So the Council was coming across as a break with Tradition.
All they had to do was get rid of the premise.But this was too simple for them.
However there were a few exceptions among them.

Now assuming something unexpected happens and  one of the FFI priests, who has been supporting what I write here, and understands what I am saying here, would be able to defend himself in public if he is thrown out of the community by Pope Francis ? 
He would have to begin his defence before a tribunal, like this:-
 1. I Father.............FFI, accept Vatican Council II as a historical event. I accept all of it.
 2. I believe the Holy Spirit guided the Council.
 3. I accept Vatican Council II making the dejure-defacto, in theory-in practise, implicit-explicit distinction and so clarify my terms.
I affirm Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II which says all need 'faith and baptism'. It is included in the Catechism of the Catholic Church 846 under the sub title Outside the Church No Salvation.It says 'all need to enter the  Church as through a door'.So according to Vatican Council II outside the Church there is no salvation in 2014 and all need 'to enter as through a door' with 'faith and baptism' for salvation.De facto, explicitly every one needs to be a visible member of the Church, with faith and baptism.
4.I affirm Lumen Gentium 16( being saved in invincible ignorance),Lumen Gentium 8 (being saved with elements of sanctification and truth), Nostra Aetate 2 (being saved with good and holy things in other religions, through Jesus and the Church). They all refer to de jure (in principle cases), implicit for us and known only to God.Since they are hypothetical cases, possibilities, they do not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, the Syllabus of Errors or Ad  Gentes 7( all need faith and baptism). All Catholics can uphold these cases along with the traditional and 'rigorist interpretation' of extra ecclesiam nulla salus. It does not violate the Principle of Non Contradiction. We make the invisible-visible, subjective-objective distinction.
All salvation mentioned in Vatican Council II is invisible for us in 2014 and so irrelevant to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
So Vatican Council II (AG 7) is saying all non Catholics need to convert into the Church to avoid Hell (for salvation).Hindus, Jews, Muslims need faith and baptism. Orthodox Christians and Protestants need Catholic faith ( they have the baptism of water) which includes the Sacraments and the moral and faith teachings of the Catholic Church.
According to Vatican Council II (AG 7) most people on earth are oriented to Hell without faith and baptism. While in Heaven there are only Catholics (with faith and baptism and without mortal sin).
5.Nostra Aetate says Catholics are the new people of God. Catholics are the Chosen People they have the Promised Jewish Messiah. They have the new and everlasting Covenant He made for those who believe in Him in the Catholic Church.So all Catholics, FFI included, have a mortal duty to proclaim outside the church there is no salvation.Members of other religions need to convert into the Catholic Church even though they have been granted religious freedom, in a state with a secular Constitution (Dignitatis Humanae).
Dignitatis Humanae, Vatican Council II asks us to respect the political rights of non Catholics in a secular state, while continuing to profess our Catholic Faith and our political right to religious freedom.


CONCLUSION
As per the new requirements of the Apostolic Commissioner I accept Vatican Council II, in which de jure, implicit for us references to salvation are NOT considered to be defacto, explicit and visible to us in 2014.
This is the stuff of physics and not theology.If a body has mass, force and acceleration, it presupposes that the body exists in time and space (2014). Where is the 'human body' in time and space saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire? So how can this non existing human body be an exception to extra ecclesiam nulla salus i.e every one needs faith and baptism  for salvation.
I cannot see the dead on earth. So I reject the 'new ecclesiology', 'theology of religions', development of doctrine'  and 'irrational interpretation of Vatican Council II' based on an irrational premise, that of there being known and visible  exceptions in 2014 to the literal and traditional interpretation of the thrice defined dogma on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church, which is in perfect agreement with Vatican  Council II.
I am aware that this may not be the interpretation of Vatican Council II according to the Commissar appointed by the Prefect of the Congregation for Religious, .

Signed: Fr............FFI.

-Lionel Andrades

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/12/franciscans-of-immaculate-part-2-from.html
 

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