There is a doctrinal crisis within the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) and they don't know how to handle it.Today morning I met Don Aldo Rossi, the Prior of the SSPX ,Albano, Italy. He had no comment.
May be the SSPX,Albano have decided to sit this one out and wait for a consensus decision from Econe, their Headquarters.
May be the SSPX,Albano have decided to sit this one out and wait for a consensus decision from Econe, their Headquarters.
The SSPX District Superior was recently interviewed on Rai Uno, the local televisin, and he escaped easily since the interviewer was not aware of the doctrinal error within the SSPX. The SSPX District Superior Fr.Pierpaolo Petrucci presented the standard SSPX position implying Vatican Council II was a break with the traditional teaching on other religions and ecumenism.The interviewer did not know that all these years the SSPX has been interpreting Lumen Gentium 16 ( being saved in invincible ignorance), Unitatis Redintigratio 3 ( being saved while in imperfect communion with the Church), NA 2 ( being saved in other religions which have good and holy things) etc as referring to known cases.For the SSPX these cases are objective and visible. In other words Don Petrucci can see the dead in Heaven who are exceptions to all needing to convert into the Church, to avoid Hell and go to Heaven.This is irrational but Rai Uno, did not know this.
We don't know any such case of the deceased being visible to us.These are possibilities known only to God but are not exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
There are no exceptions in Vatican Council II to the dogma on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church and this is a doctrinal surprise for the SSPX.
The SSPX priests at Albano with whom I have spoken to understand me but they have to be obedient to their District Superior and remain in unity with Econe.
In the past some of the SSPX priests would criticize Fr.Leonard Feeney but now they know that the baptism of desire is not an exception to the dogma on salvation. It has nothing to do with the dogma on salvation since there are no known cases in 2014.
So like the Good Thief, who died on the cross without the baptism of water and went to Heaven, if there are many Dismas' in 2014, we do not not know any. So Dismas in 2014 is not an exception to extra ecclesiam nulla salus. All need faith and baptism for salvation and we do not know any Dismas in 2014 who is saved outside the visible limits of the Catholic Church.
'Zero cases of something are not exceptions', said the apologist John Martigioni. He agrees, here are no exceptions to the dogma on salvation.
If the SSPX, Econe,acknowledges that in Vatican Council II there are no known exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus ( as did there last General Chapter Meeting in 2012) 1.Then for them there is no change in the Catholic teaching on other religions and ecumenism in Vatican Council II.They would interpret extra ecclesiam nulla salus as did St.Augustine, St.Thomas Aquinas, St.Robert Bellarmine, St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Anthony Marie Claret, St.Maximillian Kolbe and numerous other saints.
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The issue is how does the SSPX present this information to their supporters ? Those who attend the SSPX religious services , assume LG 16, UR 3, NA 2 etc are explicit and very visible for us . Now the SSPX priests have to tell them that LG 16 etc refer to invisible for us cases and so Vatican Council II never was an exception to Tradition.
Also this error is there in many of the books published by the SSPX Districts and read by lay Catholics.Do they acknowledge the error in the books? Do they make corrections? Do they stop publishing books with factual errors; implying they can see the dead ?
Over time things could sort itself out but if the SSPX said Vatican Council II affirms extra ecclesiam nulla salus ( this was omitted in the General Chapter Statement) would it legally be considered Anti Semitic ?
Vatican Council II would also be offensive to Muslims. Mohammad, did not have 'faith and baptism' (AG 7).Muslims in general are oriented to Hell unless they convert into the Church,not according to Tradition only, but according to Vatican Council II.If there are any exceptions it would be known only to God.Presently the SSPX assumes there are known exceptions, mentioned in Vatican Council II,to the dogma on exclusive salvation
-Lionel Andrades
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