Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Nostra Aetate does not contradict extra ecclesiam nulla salus : doctrinal opening for the SSPX


 Ad Gentes 7,Vatican Council II is binding on Cardinal Kurt Koch as it is on the Society of St.Pius X(SSPX). It indicates 'all' non Catholics need 'faith and baptism' for salvation. Catholic Faith and the baptism of water are needed by the Jews, Muslims etc for salvation, according to Vatican Council II.

 
The afternoon speech followed Cardinal Koch's participation in a meeting of the doctrinal congregation to examine the latest progress in the Vatican's reconciliation talks with the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X.

"There are questions to clarify in discussions with this community. I can't say more than that," he told reporters, echoing a Vatican statement saying the reconciliation talks are ongoing.

In addition to the highly publicized position of Bishop Richard Williamson, an SSPX bishop who denies the Holocaust, public statements by the society's superior general, Bishop Bernard Fellay, leave in doubt whether the society as a whole accepts the entirety of "Nostra Aetate," including its condemnations of anti-Semitism and of the idea that the Jews were to blame for the death of Jesus.

"All the doctrinal decisions of the church are binding on a Catholic, including the Second Vatican Council and all its texts," Cardinal Koch said when asked if the SSPX would be expected to accept all the teachings of Vatican II. "The 'Nostra Aetate' declaration of the Second Vatican Council is a clear decree and is important for every Catholic," he added.-Cardinal Kurt Koch, CNS report
 
Ad Gentes 7,Vatican Council II  is binding on Cardinal Kurt Koch as it is on the Society of St.Pius X(SSPX). It indicates 'all' non Catholics need 'faith and baptism' for salvation. Catholic Faith and the baptism of water are needed by the Jews, Muslims etc for salvation, according to Vatican Council II.
 
It is Cardinal Kurt Koch who is rejecting Vatican Council II when he states 'While Catholics profess that, in the end, all salvation will be accomplished through Jesus Christ, "it does not necessarily follow that the Jews are excluded from God's salvation because they do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel and the son of God," the cardinal said. "That the Jews are participants in God's salvation is theologically unquestionable, but how that can be possible without confessing Christ explicitly is and remains an unfathomable divine mystery."
The cardinal said, "The Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed toward the Jews," but that does not exclude Christians bearing witness to their faith "in an unassuming and humble manner."  Cardinal Koch did not say that Vatican Council II says Jews need to convert.Nostra Aetate 3 also states that Catholics are the new people of God. The Jews were the Chosen People. Now it is the Catholics who have the Messiah and the Eternal Covenant. They are the Chosen People.
 
The SSPX  has a right to canonical status since Vatican Council II (AG 7) supports the SSPX's traditional Catholic positon on salvation and other religions. While Nostra Aetate 2 , a 'ray of that Truth' does not contradict Ad Gentes 7 or the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Ad Gentes 7 is also a contradiction of the wild  interpretations of  Nostra Aetate which are there on the Internet.
-Lionel Andrades
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May 7, 2014

Nostra Aetate does not say that Non Catholics do not need to convert into the Catholoic Church - Fr.John Hunwicke http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.it/2014/01/nostra-aetate-1.html 

May 6, 2014
Rorate Caeili,Cardinal Brandmuller,SSPX same error on Nostra Aetate : traditionalists cannot correct University of Bristol

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