Pope Pius XII made a factual error which found its way into the text of Vatican Council II.This is becoming better known among Catholics.It has been known to the Vatican Curia for a long time.There have been reports on this blog over the last few years.Many of these reports have been e-mailed to Vatican dicasteries and offices.
During the pontificate of Pope Pius XII the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston issued by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani made a factual error.
1. It assumed that cases of the baptism of desire and being saved in in invincible ignorance were explicit and so were exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus i.e all do not need to be defacto members of the Catholic Church for salvation, as it was taught over the centuries, since allegedly there were known, objective exceptions.
2. It assumed that past Church documents ( Council of Trent, Mystici Corporis) stated that being saved with the baptism of desire and in invincible ignorance were exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus ( EENs) defined by three Church Councils.This is also factually incorrect. The Council of Trent for example, mentions being saved with implicit desire but does not connect these cases to the dogma. It does not state that these cases are known and so are exceptions to all needing to be card carrying members of the Church for salvation. The connection was made by Cardinal Marchetti and was not corrected by Pope Pius XII.Since then the Church assumes hypotethetical cases are defacto exceptions to EENS and the Syllabus of Errors.
3. Cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani did not personally know of any one in 1949 who was saved outside the Church i.e without faith and baptism.So he only speculated that there was salvation outside the Church.The magisterium since then assumes there is salvation outside the Church.
4.The Marcheti error implies that the dead-saved who are now in Heaven ( allegedly without faith and baptism) are visible on earth( to be exceptions to the dogma). In other words he could see the dead on earth. This is irrational and factually incorrect. It is a fact of life that we humans in general cannot see people who are in Heaven.
This is the Pope Pius XII error which has not been corrected by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when it is related to the SSPX issue, evangelisation, inter-religious dialogue, ecumenism, religious liberty, inter faith marriages, heresy against the Nicene Creed, the rejection of a defined dogma,ecclesiology,Catholic education...
An announcement would be needed from Pope Francis, who interprets Vatican Council II with the Pius XII Error.He could clarify that :-
1. There are no known exceptions to Feeneyism in 2015.
2. Before 1949 no magisterial document says the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance are explicit and so are exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS).
3. Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani made a factual error. He did not know of anyone saved outside the Church i.e without faith and baptism.So he wrongly postuled that there was salvation outside the Catholic Church.
The first part of the Letter of the Holy Office affirms the Feeneyite version of the dogma and the second part contradicts the first part when it assumed there are known exceptions to the dogma , the baptism of desire and being saved invincible ignorance being some of them.This error was placed in Vatican Council II (AG 7,LG 14).
4.Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre accepted the Cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani factual error.It is a fact of life that the dead-saved are not visible and known on earth for them to be exceptions to EENS.The SSPX founder also accepted the factual error and the new theology based upon it.
5.There is nothing in Vatican Council II to contradict Feeneyism.LG 16,LG 8,UR 3, NA 2 are not explicit for us in 2015.
6. The Ratzinger-Schonborn Catechism of the Catholic Church(1992) accepted the Pius XII error and did not affirm the rigorist interpretation of the dogma EENS.The magisterium made a factual mistake.The omission can be seen in other magisterial documents like Redemptoris Missio etc.Two theological papers of the International Theological Commission carry this mistake.
So Cardinal Schonborn's YOUCAT carries the same error.
For political reasons the fourth quarta meeting this autumn is not expected to discess this major error in the teachings of the post 1949 Catholic Church.
According to Vatican Insider, the “feria quarta” is attended by 25 cardinals and bishops, including: the Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin; the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Fernando Filoni; the President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Francesco Coccopalmerio; the Archbishop of Naples, Crescenzio Sepe; the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn and the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Jean-Pierre Ricard.-Lionel Andrades
__________________________