“The fact that the Society of St Pius X does not possess a canonical status in the Church is not, in the end, based on disciplinary but on doctrinal reasons.” -Pope Benedict XVI
1. If you say Vatican Council II does contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus,the Syllabus of Errors and Tradition on the issue of other religions and Christian communities and churches, it means you consider all salvation, referred to in Vatican Council II as being visible to us, explicit on earth and Heaven. It is true the Council does contradict the dogma.The Council would contradict the dogma when this irrational premise is used!
2.If you say Vatican Council II does not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, the Syllabus of Errors and Tradition on the issue of other religions and Christian communities and churches, it means you consider all salvation, referred to in Vatican Council II as being invisible to us, on earth.They are hypothetical cases, possibilities, known only to God. It is true Vatican Council II does not contradict the dogma.The Council would not contradict the dogma when the irrational premise is not used!
Pope Benedict is using the irrational interpretation of Vatican Council II and considers it the doctrinal teaching of the Catholic Church ?.
He has never said that Vatican Council II is in perfect accord with Fr.Leonard Feeney and his traditional interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Some questions and answers :
1. Vatican Council II is ambigous on the issue of other religions and Christian communities, this is the general view held by Catholics?
Answer: If one assumes all salvation referred to in the Council (LG 8, LG 16 etc) are visible to us on earth, then the Council would be a break with the past. The Council would be ambiguous if this irrational premise is used.
2. How can you say that Vatican Council II is pro Fr.Leonard Feeney ?
Ad Gentes 7 affirms the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus when it refers to all needing faith and baptism for salvation and all needing to enter the Catholic Church as through a door. Ad Gentes 7 is placed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church 846 under the sub title Outside the Church No Salvation.
There are no known exceptions to Ad Gentes 7 or extra ecclesiam nulla salus mentioned in Vatican Council II.
3.Why do you say there are no known exceptions mentioned in Vatican Council II to extra ecclesiamn nulla salus?
Since all salvation in Heaven is visible only to God and not visible to us. We do not know any case in 2014 saved in imperfect communion with the Church(UR 3), seeds of the Word (AG 11), invincible ignorance(LG 16) etc.
Vatican Council II just mentions these cases. They are probabilities. The Council does not state that they are exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
4. Fr.Leonard Feeney was condemned for not accepting the baptism of desire etc?
If he was condemned for heresy then it was a mistake, an objective mistake. It would mean that Pope Pius XII assumed that the baptism of desire etc was visible to us in Heaven. It would have to be visible and known for it to be an exception to the dogma on salvation.
5.So did Pope Pius XII make a mistake?
No, Pope Pius XII supported Fr.Leonard Feeney on doctrine/dogma in the earlier part of the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 when he referred to 'the dogma', the 'infallible statement' and as the Church knew and taught it for centuries. The text of the dogma does not mention any exceptions.
The latter part of the Letter refers to disobedience/discipline. Fr.Leonard Feeney did not go to Rome when called to defend himself.
The Letter says he was excommunicated for disobedience.
The Letter does not state that there are known exceptions to the dogma or that implicit desire and being saved in invincible ignorance were exceptions to the dogma on exclusive salvation.
-Lionel Andrades
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