Wednesday, February 19, 2014

CONFUSION IN CATHOLIC HOSPITALS : Monsignor Leuzzi will not comment

Monsignor Lorenzo Leuzzi, the head of the Department for Pastoral Care (Pastorale per Salute) for the Sick, of the Vicariate of Rome, will not comment on a subject related to Catholic religious and lay persons working in Catholic hospitals and institutions in Rome.There is confusion on a faith issue.
 
I had e-mailed and faxed him asking him what is the position of his department regarding a doctrinal question which was referred to on the website of the Vicariate Pastoral Care for the Sick.The website when teaching the Catholic Faith stated that all need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation except for those in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire.These were exceptions.
 
I had asked him to clarify this point since we do not know any one in the present times who will receive salvation or has received salvation with the baptism of desire etc.Did he agree with me  I asked ?
The baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance were only possibilities and were not exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus or to Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7) which says all need 'faith and baptism' for salvation.
If he says there are exceptions it means he can see ghosts or spirits. This would be a lie. Since neither can he or the others at the Vicariate see the dead who are saved.Also the Holy Spirit would not teach an irrationality.
I hoped that he believed that there were no exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus or Ad Gentes 7.
Secondly, I asked, since we do not know anyone who has received salvation in invincible ignorance (LG 16), imperfect communion with the Church (UR 3), seeds of the Word (AG 11), good and holy things in other religions (NA 2), these cases are not exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus or to Ad Gentes 7 , Vatican Council II ?
Thirdly, those who had received salvation through Jesus and the Church (Catechism of the Catholic Church 846) in other religions , are known only to God. These cases are possibilities but not exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus  ( Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441)
I sent this message to Monsgr. Leuzzi also through persons whom he knows and is in contact with.It is over two months and I have not received an acknowledgement of my communication and neither has he explained his departments position on this issue.It is not known what would be the doctrinal position on this religious issue, of Catholic doctors, nurses, patients in hospitals, religious sisters and chaplains in Rome.

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