Pope Francis' joint ecumenical commemoration of the Reformation is possible theologically for Catholics since the Baltimore Catechism infers there is known salvation outside the Church, a person can be saved without the baptism of water

 

Pope Francis will go to Lund, Sweden for  a joint ecumenical commemoration of the start of the Reformation, together with leaders of the Lutheran World Federation and representatives of other Christian Churches.This is possible theologically for Catholics  since the Baltimore Catechism infers there is known salvation outside the Church, a person can be saved without the baptism of water.

This was the new theology used in the Balamand Declaration.It was also the theology of the International Theological Commission under Pope Benedict and Cardinal Luiz Ladaria S.J.One of the ITC papers they approved, proposes a 'theology of religions'. At the same time,in a kind of a double-speak,  Cardinal Ratzinger also issued a CDF Notification on Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J against the theology of religions. Perhaps Pope John Paul II asked him to do so.

Now Pope Francis permits  a new department at the Gregorian Pontifical University called 'The Department of the Theology of Religions' which is under the Rector and another Jesuit priest.This is a contradiction with the Magisterium of Pope John  Paul II. One magisterium against under another. Surely at one of these two times the magisterium was wrong.

All this was possible because of the breach made by the Baltimore Catechism.It inferred that there is a baptism of desire which is similar to the baptism of water( as if they would know)  and that every one does not need the baptism of water in the Catholic Church for salvation, because of these 'known exceptions'.
It is a fact of life that we do not know any of these exceptions. We cannot physically see people in Heaven saved without the baptism of water in the Catholic Church.

So there is a theology, a new ecumenism, based on this factual error in the Baltimore Catechism.-Lionel Andrades

 

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