Review of Angelus Press The Catholic Church and Salvation by Msgr. Joseph C. Fenton

 

Review Rating : Bad

 

There was a factual error in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 of which Monsgr.Fenton was not aware of .
The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 assumed that the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance were known, visible in the flesh exceptions to the literal and traditional interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. They would have to be known and visible in the flesh to be exceptions to the dogma.
We now know that there are no known cases of someone saved with the baptism of desire etc in 2014 and without the baptism of water, whom we know of.These cases are in Heaven and are not visible to us.

So the Letter made a factual mistake. Objectively the dead-saved cannot be seen on earth to be exceptions to all needing the baptism of water for salvation.
Monsgr.Fenton also does theology based on this factual error.
The SSPX's Fr.Francois Laisney has written a book Is Feeneyism Catholic (Angelus Press) in which he is unaware of this factual error.
Similarly the objective error is extended to Vatican Council II. It is assumed by the SSPX priests and bishops, in general, that Lumen Gentium 16 ( saved in invincible ignorance) is a break with Tradition.This is false.
Without the irrational premise (being able to see the dead on earth) there are no exceptions to the traditional interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus, according to the Church Fathers, the Church Councils, the popes in the ordinary magisterium and the saints.
-Lionel Andrades

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