Thursday, September 25, 2014

Pope John Paul II's objective mistake

Rather, we must maintain that the way of salvation always passes through Christ, and therefore the Church and her missionaries have the task of making him known and loved in every time, place and culture. Apart from Christ "there is no salvation." -Pope John Paul II
 
The way of salvation always passes through Christ and the Catholic Church and there is no known salvation outside the Church, all need to be formal members of the Catholic Church for salvation.
Pope John Paul II assumes those saved in other religions are defacto cases, known to us personally for them to be exceptions to the traditional interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
This was the mistake of the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 which also assumed that those saved with the baptism of desire or in invincible ignorance were known to us, in other words these were visible cases. So they became exceptions to Fr.Leonard Feeney's traditional interpretation of the dogma.This was an objective mistake of the Archbishop and the Jesuits in Boston and the Holy Office of that time.This error is repeated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,l Vatican today .
Perhaps for this reason Pope John Paul II, like Cardinal Ratzinger, separates Jesus from the Church and does not call for formal membership for all without any exceptions.He says apart from Christ there is no salvation when the traditional teaching is apart from Jesus in the Catholic Church there is no salvation and all need to convert to avoid Hell.

However, as I wrote in the Encyclical Redemptoris Missio, the gift of salvation cannot be limited "to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church.-Pope John Paul II 

 Yes, the gift of salvation is  limited "to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church".
Salvation is offered to all but only those who respond, those who enter the Church formally can  benefit from Jesus Death and Resurrection.(Dominus Iesus 20).
-Lionel Andrades
 
 


September 24, 2014

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