(6:25) Don Pierpaolo Petrucci says that the Catholic Church is the one true religion founded by Jesus Christ the only Saviour yet Vatican Council II says all religions are paths to salvation.
Where does Vatican Council II say that all religions are equal paths to salvation?
NA 2 refers/alludes to non Catholics who can be saved with 'good and holy' things in other religions. These are possibilities known only to God. Even Archbishop Lefebvre referred to the Hindu in Tibet being saved in his religion through Jesus and the Church.So this is a possibility. Since these cases are not known to us in personal cases they are not relevant to the dogma on exclusive salvation.They are not exceptions to Ad Gentes 7 (all need faith and baptism) and the thrice defined dogma outside the Church there is no salvation.
Vatican Council II (NA 2) has not stated that non Catholic religions are paths to salvation or that they are the ordinary means of salvation.
It is the position of the SSPX that Vatican Council II (NA 2) suggests there are known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
They also hold the position that the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance are known, visible, explicit exceptions to the traditional interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as interpreted by Fr.Leonard Feeney.
So for them, all salvation referred to in Vatican Council II and the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston, refer to explicit, visible cases on earth which contradict Tradition.
The fault is not with Vatican Council II II since I can interpret LG 16 ( invincible ignorance ) as being invisible for us and not visible for us. While for the SSPX District Superior it is the opposite.
For me LG 16 is a possibility for salvation it is not the ordinary means for salvation, the ordinary means for salvation is 'faith and baptism' (Ad Gentes 7). It is the opposite for the SSPX.
For me Ad Gentes 7 says all need 'faith and baptism' for salvation.So it affirms the traditional interpretation of the dogma on exclusive salvation. This point is not mentioned in books being sold by them in Italy.
There is no new Revelation, in the Catholic Church for me, which rejects Tradition.Since I make the distinction between explicit-implicit, defacto-dejure, visble-invisible. Father Pierpaolo Petrucci does not make this distinction in the interpretation of Vatican Council II. Neither do the liberals and the Left make this distinction. So the result is confusion. The new Revelation in the Catholic Church for them is interpreting all salvation, as being explicit for us on earth, visible in the flesh, defacto cases personally known and of a course, a break with Tradition.
-Lionel Andrades
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