Every Catholic religious community can accept implicit for us baptism of desire along with the 'rigorist interpretation' of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani did not know this.Since then the confusion of the explicit for us baptism of desire has spread to all religious communities and is the official policy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USSCB).
Its absurd when all the offices of the USCCB assume that salvation in Heaven is phyically visible to us in particular cases.They then assume that these deceased seen on earth are visible exceptions to all defacto needing the baptism of water for salvation. So those saved with the baptism of desire, invincible ignorance(LG 16), ' a ray of the Truth'(NA 2) are examples of outside the Church there is known, defacto salvation.This is the official USCCB policy! Really, is there some known case in 2014, a non Catholic, who does not need faith and baptism for salvation ?
So now in US dioceses whenever there are references to Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church by the USCCB they are assuming that the dead-saved in invincible ignorance are visible to us and so are visible to us and and so are explicit exceptions to traditional teachings on salvation.
So understandabley this month on July 11 Jem Sullivan Ph.d, in a reflection on the Daily Mass Readings , on the USCCB video, affirmed Jesus without the necessity of the Catholic Church, for salvation. The Church would not be necessary for the salvation of all people since there is defacto, known salvation outside the Church for her. It is as if she could name someone saved in 2013-2014 without the baptism of water.This is taught to seminarians at the USCCB approved seminary in Rome.
Fr.Dan Merz, Associate Director, Secretariate of Divine Worship,USCCB in an e-mail to me(July 14,2014) also implied that being saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire are physically visible in the present times.So all people, for him, defacto do not have to enter the Catholic Church for salvation.The USCCB Doctrinal Committe in a Notification issued on Fr.Peter C.Phan also assumed that being saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are exceptions to all needing to enter the Church for salvation.In other words these cases are known and visible and so they are explicit exceptions to the traditional teaching.
All this irrationality is being taught in the USCCB Certification Course for Catechists.While young candidates with a religious vocation have to assume that there is known salvation(visible in the flesh) outside the Church in the present times.This is the view of the Directors of Vocations.They have to accept theology built upon a fantasy premise.
"We Catholics no longer embrace a theology of return" says Fr. John Crossin, O.S.F.S , the Executive Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Whenever there are references to Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church by the USCCB they are using the irrational interpretation which comes from the time of the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. They assume that the dead-saved in invincible ignorance are physically visible to us and so are explicit exceptions to all physically needing the baptism of water, for salvation.This error is being mantained by all the Catholic religous communities in the USA.
Even the communities of Fr.Leonard Feeney are affirming Vatican Council II as a break with Tradition and the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.They have always correctly upheld the dogma as having no exceptions.So for them the baptism of desire is not an exception to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.Theologically it would not be an exception but physically, defacto is the baptism of desire visible to us and is not an exception? There is no answer here. NA 2 etc are exceptions to the dogma for them.Otherwise they would say that Vatican Council II is in perfect agreement with extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
This dead man walking and visible theory by the USCCB is the singular factor which decides if Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church is a continuation or break with the Traditional teachings of the Church.
-Lionel Andrades
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