Saturday, February 15, 2014

NO ARTICLE ON TRADITIONALIST NEWS AGENCY ENDORSING EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS

There is no article endorsing the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus on the traditionalist news agency Correspondenza Romano (CR). There is no article by Prof. Roberto dei Mattei, Cristina Siccardi or other traditionalist correspondents.
 
The writers are critical of Vatican Council II for not affirming extra ecclesiam nulla salus and Tradition in general.However they will not write a report affirming the thrice defined dogma.Even the text of the dogma is not available on CR or its sister publications.
Roberto Mattei and Cristina Siccardi do not know anyone in 2014 who will be saved 'outside the visible limits of the Church'.They do not know anyone who is an exception to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.Neither does Vatican Council II state that  there are exceptions to the dogma on salvation.Vatican Council mentions probabilities for salvation (UR 3, NA 2, LG 8,LG 16). The probabilities are not exceptions.Possibilities are not known, visible exceptions.
The baptism of desire is a possibility but it is not an exception to the traditional interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney of Boston.There is no explicit for us baptism of desire. There can be an implicit baptism of desire known only to God.Since it is not there in our reality it is not relevant to extra ecclesiam nulla salus. So the Church Councils did not mention it in the text of the dogma.(Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441 etc).
 
A search of the CR website with the words extra ecclesiam nulla salus draws the interview of Archbishop Augustine Di Noia by the National Catholic Register :
 
  
How much is a perceived weakening of the dogma extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) a major part of the problem, as some traditionalists assert? Has today’s understanding of the dogma contradicted its earlier teaching?
I don’t know if you can blame this on the Council so much as the emergence of a theological trend that emphasised the possibility of salvation of non-Christians. But the Church has always affirmed this, and it has never denied it. … [Karl] Rahner had a disastrous effect on this with his “anonymous Christianity.” But the Council does not alter the teaching of the Church.
And yet they argue it does?
This is a very good example of two of the things we’ve mentioned: the danger of reading this as it’s been read by Rahner, instead of in the light of the whole Tradition.
They claim that salvation is hardly proclaimed anymore.
Ralph Martin agrees with that. We do have a crisis, because the Church has been infected with the idea that we don’t have to worry or be anxious or we don’t sufficiently take the mandate to proclaim Christ seriously. But it’s not because of Vatican II, but bad theology. That’s why Dominus Iesus was part of the response to all of that theology of religion. There is no question that the necessity of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus has a long history. But they were talking about heretics, not nonbelievers. That formula addresses the problems of heresies. It has its history.
The Council did say there are elements of grace in other religions, and I don’t think that should be retracted. I’ve seen them, I know them — I’ve met Lutherans and Anglicans who are saints. (1)
 

Archbishop Augustine di Noia is implying here that he knows of Lutherans and Anglicans who are going to be saved in their religion. He knows whom Jesus will save who do not have Catholic Faith? He knows that these persons will be known exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.He knows this personally. He has this supernatural knowledge of the future.Even though a Catholic can commit one mortal sin and lost Sanctifying Grace and salvation, he knows that these Lutherans and Anglicans will not commit a mortal sin in future.
This report only proves my point about CR and Prof. Roberto dei Matteo, Cristina Siccardi and others. They assume there are known exceptions in the present times, to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Like Archbishop Di Noia is referring to Lumen Gentium 8 being an exception, they assume that Unitatis Redintigratio 3, Lumen Gentium 16 etc are also exceptions to Tradition.
-Lionel Andrades
 
 
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Archbishop DiNoia, Ecclesia Dei and the Society of St. Pius X
 

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