The Church is Apostolic but what the USCCB is teaching is not apostolic :more confusion in today's Daily Mass Reading reflection

Only in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 is it inferred that the deceased now saved in Heaven are explicit exceptions on earth to all needing the baptism of water for salvation. This is irrational.It is also not apostolic.

 The apostles taught outside the Church there is no salvation.Centuries later saints and popes who referred to the baptism of desire, did not claim that it was  objectively visible to us.

 

Yet this irrationality of the visible to us salvation in Heaven, is the norm in the Departments of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops(USCCB).

Today in the video reflection on the Daily Mass Readings Rev.Fr.Thomas Weinanday O.F.M,from the USCCB Secretariate of Doctrine says that every Sunday when we pray the Nicene Creed we say 'I believe in one holy Catholic and apostolic Church.'
He asks,"what do we mean when we say that we believe in an apostolic Church?"

 

 

 

 

 

He  answers, "We believe that all what Jesus  has taught, what he has done for us has come to us from the Apostles. They were the first followers of Jesus.He appointed them to be his official witnesses as to what he said and did.We  believe that the Apostles have proclaimed to us the truth and so we believe what they believed.By the power of the Holy Spirit the Apostles have guaranteed that the Gospel we believe is the true Gospel.'

 

"That guarantee,'"he says, "is still present because we believe that the Bishop of Rome and all the bishops in union with him possess apostolic authority i.e that they are the presence of the apostles in our midst today.

"Thus we are assured that what we believe is in accord with the 12 apostles.This is what has been taught and revealed by Jesus today."

This  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.The apostles and  the Church Fathers taught that there was no known salvation outside the Catholic Church. She implies there is salvation. She will not say all need to enter the Church for salvation. So both these teachings 1) there is no salvation and 2) there is salvation outside the Church cannot be correct.One has to be wrong. One is not apostolic.

 

Fr.Thomas Weinanday's colleague 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.This contradicts the apostolic teachings of the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. So one of the teachings is not apostolic.The one held by the USCCB now or the one during the Middle Ages.

The USCCB Doctrinal Committee 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.This is irrational. How can the Holy Spirit teach that the dead saved are visible on earth to be exceptions?. This cannot be an apostolic teaching.

 

Then the  USCCB will not correct the Archdiocese of Boston website which states Jews do not have to convert in the present times. Jesus taught Jews needed to convert. This was an apostolic teaching.

 

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). This statement contradicts the defined dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441 specifically mentions Protestants as heretics and Orthodox Christians as schismatics.It says they will go to the fires of Hell unless they convert into the Catholic Church.The three Councils which defined extra ecclesiam nulla salus were apostolic. Fr.John Crossin is not.He and the USCCB are teaching heresy.
 

So it was a public lie today for Fr.Thomas Weinanday to claim that the USCCB is apostolic.
 

In the Nicene Creed we pray ,'I believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sin'.This refers to the baptism of water, which is visible and known to us.The USCCB teaches that there are three known baptisms, water,desire and blood.This is irrational. It is a new doctrine and it is not apostolic.It is heresy.

The USCCB is presenting Jesus without the need of the Catholic Church for salvation since it assumes that there is known salvation outside the Church. It is telling Catholics in America to assume that you can see the deceased- saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire and that these dead persons now in Heaven, are physically visible exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus, which is no more apostolic.

It is telling Catholics in America to assume that those saved with ' a ray of the Truth'( NA 2), 'imperfect communion with the Church'(UR 3), 'seeds of the Word'(AG 11), elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8) etc are visible to us defacto in 2014.So the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as it was interpreted traditionally over centuries, is no more apostolic.
-Lionel Andrades

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July 25, 2014

 

Feast of Saint James, Apostle
Lectionary: 605

Reading 1 2 cor 4:7-15

Brothers and sisters:
We hold this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.
We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained;
perplexed, but not driven to despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned;
struck down, but not destroyed;
always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.
For we who live are constantly being given up to death
for the sake of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since, then, we have the same spirit of faith,
according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke,
we too believe and therefore speak,
knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus
will raise us also with Jesus
and place us with you in his presence.
Everything indeed is for you,
so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people
may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.

Responsorial Psalm ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6

R. (5) Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
When the LORD brought back the captives of Zion,
we were like men dreaming.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with rejoicing.
R. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
Then they said among the nations,
“The LORD has done great things for them.”
The LORD has done great things for us;
we are glad indeed.
R. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
Restore our fortunes, O LORD,
like the torrents in the southern desert.
Those that sow in tears
shall reap rejoicing.
R. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.
Although they go forth weeping,
carrying the seed to be sown,
They shall come back rejoicing,
carrying their sheaves.
R. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.

Gospel mt 20:20-28

The mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons
and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something.
He said to her,
“What do you wish?”
She answered him,
“Command that these two sons of mine sit,
one at your right and the other at your left, in your Kingdom.”
Jesus said in reply,
“You do not know what you are asking.
Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?”
They said to him, “We can.”
He replied,
“My chalice you will indeed drink,
but to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give
but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
When the ten heard this,
they became indignant at the two brothers.
But Jesus summoned them and said,
“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,
and the great ones make their authority over them felt.
But it shall not be so among you.
Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant;
whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.
Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”