Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Doctrinal confusion in Catholic diocese of Worcester, USA

Bishop of Worcester
The Catholic diocese of Worcester has a list of Religious Houses and Communities approved in the diocese. They include the traditionalists MICM. They have been granted full canonical status.

MICM - Sisters of St. Benedict Center, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saint Anne's House)

MICM – Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
(Immaculate Heart of Mary School)

The other Religious Houses in the diocese are making an error on Catholic doctrine.The same error is being made by the diocese Curia some of whom I have been in contact with via the Internet.
 Diocese Logo
The Religious communities in Worcester,USA in their catechesis and personal religious beliefs assume all salvation referred to in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston, Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church are visible and known to us. Since they are visible it is assumed that they are exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as interpreted by Fr.Leonard  Feeney of Boston.
 
The bishop and priests of the diocese are aware of this error but this seems their political piosition. All the communities who are making this error in Worcester, except for the MICM, have been granted full canonical status.
 
There had been complaints from liberals about the MICM communities being granted canonical status. Their opponents do not make the distinction between implicit and explicit baptism of desire. Implicit baptism of desire is not an exception to the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
 
So the MICM can affirm the traditional interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus along with implicit baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance. It does not contradict the Principle of Non Contradiction.
 
I am unable to find the list of Religious Communities on the website of the Diocese of Worcester.Perhaps the diocese has removed it.  The link I have provided here is from Rasha Lampa's  Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus Link List.
-Lionel Andrades

http://www.worcesterdiocese.org/vicar/ReligiousCommunities/tabid/478/Default.aspx

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