Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Dominicans in Nashville still silent : how do they interpret the Catechism of the Catholic Church ?

"Our schools exist to evangelize”
'The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia emphasize love of Christ and truth, personal holiness, and academic excellence'

Sr. Anne Catherine, OP, is a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia (www.nashvilledominican.org) and is principal of St. Cecilia Academy in Nashville (www.stcecilia.edu). The academy is a girl’s Catholic high school that is over a 150 years old, having been founded in 1860. The Nashville Dominicans are a traditional Catholic community who wear the full habit, and with 300 sisters, are well known in the Catholic world. In Tennessee, however, they are very much the minority. Sister Catherine reports that the state is a mere 3% Catholic, the lowest percentage of any state in the union.
Sister Catherine is one of seven sisters at the academy, five of whom are teachers. She recently spoke with CWR.    http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3024/our_schools_exist_to_evangelize.aspx

Sr. Anne Catherine, OP belongs to the same religious community as Sr.Jane Dominic Laurel O.P. Sr.Mary Sarah Galbraith is the President of Aquinas College, Nashville.They will not answer questions about the Catechism of the Catholic Church asked on The Catholic World Report blog.-Lionel Andrades

Same Catechism of the Catholic Church but different interpretations
How do the Dominicans Sisters interpret the Catechism of the Catholic Church ?
This is important for evangelisation.
Is CCC 846 contradicted by CCC 847 and 848 ?

Are there visible exceptions in Nashville, to CCC 846 which says all need to enter the Church as through a door.

 According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church there is exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church. This is my interpretation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (846). For me, being saved in invincible ignorance (CCC 847,Lumen Gentium 16) etc is a posibility known only to God. Since there are no known cases in 2014, CCC 847,LG 16 are not an exception to Ad Gentes 7, cited in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (846). All need to enter the Church as through a door (CCC 846). All need faith and baptism (AG 7).

So the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1993) is in agreement with the Catechism of Pope Pius X. CCC 846 has the same message as the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the Syllabus of Errors.

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  This is not the interpretation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, according to the University of St.Thomas Aqunas in Rome, where Sr.Jane Dominic Laurel O.P received her Doctorate in Sacred Theology and teaches at Aquinas College,Nashville. This may not be the interpretation of Sr.Mary Sarah Galbraith O.P, the President of Aquinas College.This is the same community of Dominicans who maintain the school mentioned in this report.

It is the same Catechism of the Catholic Church but we have different interpretations of CCC 846. For me CCC 847 and 848 are not exceptions to CCC 846 (and CCC 845). For the Dominicans they are exceptions to Tradition. The dead-saved are visible for them.

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ (CCC 847) refer to implicit for us cases. For the Dominicans they are explicit for us cases. For me being saved in invincible ignorance, seeds of the Word, good and holy things in other religions, imperfect communion with the Church are hypothetical.It is not so for millions of Catholics.For me these cases refer to the deceased, now saved in Heaven, who are not visible to us.So they cannot be relevant to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus which says all need to convert into the Church for salvation.

This is also the message of the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston relative to Fr.Leonard Feeney which says we must interpret the dogma as the Church does. If the cardinal who issued the Letter had assumed that being saved in implicit desire or in invincible ignorance was an exception to the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney, then he made an objective mistake and a great wrong was done to the ex-Jesuit priest from Boston.

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3024/our_schools_exist_to_evangelize.aspx 

Does the Mandatum of the Bishop ask Dominicans to say there are known exceptions to all needing to convert into the Church in 2014 ?

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/04/does-mandatum-of-bishop-ask-dominicans.html

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