The Cardinal-Archbishop of Sydney, Australia recently asked the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) to accept Vatican Council II . He could set an example for the SSPX and in public affirm Vatican Council II without assuming all salvation mentioned in the Council is visible for us on earth and so an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Similarly Cardinal Braz and Fr.Fidenzio Volpi who want the Franciscans of the Immaculate to accept Vatican Council II could also set an example for all and affirm the Council without the premise of being able to physically see the dead now saved in Heaven.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Doctrinal Committee in the Fr.Peter C.Phan case stated that being saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire were exceptions to all needing to enter the Church. They could confirm that these cases are not exceptions since we cannot see or know them.
Let them clarify :
1. Vatican Council II does not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
2. It does not contradict the traditional teaching on other religions and Christian communities and churches.
3. The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston supported Fr.Leonard Feeney on the dogma.He was not excommunicated for heresy but for disobedience.Neither was he asked to recant.He was granted a Catholic funeral.
Since Vatican Council II affirms the traditional teaching on other religions and Christian communities the cardinals and bishops should be asked to affirm the Council in public as is being asked of the SSPX for canonical status.
If they are not willing to affirm the Council without claiming they can see the dead, then they should not expect the SSPX to affirm Vatican Council II for canonical status. The Vatican could just go ahead and grant the SSPX full canonical status.
Similarly, the SSPX should ask Cardinal Gerhard Muller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith(CDF), Vatican to affirm Vatican Council II in public without the dead man walking theory. Let him clarify that those saved in invincible ignorance (LG 16) are not known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. We do not know any such case in 2014.Lumen Gentium 16 does not contradict Ad Gentes 7 which says all need faith and baptism for salvation.
If Cardinals Muller and Ladaria, Prefect and Secretray of the CDF, are not willing to affirm Vatican Council II without an irrationality, which leads to a hermeneutic of discontinuity, Vatican Council II should not be a condition for the SSPX entering the Church with canonical status.Since they themselves do not meet this condition.
Likewise the former rector of the Angelicum University who is now the bishop of Lausanne, Switzerland and who will not allow the SSPX to use Catholic churches in his diocese, because of 'doctrinal differences' ,must affirm Vatican Council II without claims of seeing the dead. Otherwise, allow the SSPX to use churches for Holy Mass.
-Lionel Andrades
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