Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Mundabor and the SSPX have replaced Feeneyite EENS with Cushingite EENS

Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus

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“The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.” -Pope Innocent III, ex cathedra, Fourth Lateran Council (1215 AD)
“We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” -Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam (1302 AD)
“The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire ‘which was prepared for the devil and his angels’ (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her… No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”  -Pope Eugene IV, ex cathedra, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino (1441 AD)



“The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.”  -Pope Saint Gregory the Great (590-604)

“By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.”  -Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, 18 December 1208 (DS 423)
“You see, dearly beloved sons and venerable brothers, how much vigilance is needed to keep the disease of this terrible evil from infecting and killing your flocks. Do not cease to diligently defend your people against these pernicious errors. Saturate them with the doctrine of Catholic truth more accurately each day. Teach them that just as there is only one God, one Christ, one Holy Spirit, so there is also only one truth which is divinely revealed. There is only one divine faith which is the beginning of salvation for mankind and the basis of all justification, the faith by which the just person lives and without which it is impossible to please God and to come to the community of His children.[Rom 1; Heb 11; Council of Trent, session 6, chap. 8.] There is only one true, holy, Catholic church, which is the Apostolic Roman Church. There is only one See founded in Peter by the word of the Lord,[St. Cyprian, epistle 43.] outside of which we cannot find either true faith or eternal salvation. He who does not have the Church for a mother cannot have God for a father, and whoever abandons the See of Peter on which the Church is established trusts falsely that he is in the Church.[St. Cyprian,de unitat. Eccl.] Thus, there can be no greater crime, no more hideous stain than to stand up against Christ, than to divide the Church engendered and purchased by His blood, than to forget evangelical love and to combat with the furor of hostile discord the harmony of the people of God.[St. Cyprian, epistle 72.]” -Blessed Pope Pius IX, Singulari Quidem, #4, 17 March 1856
“Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.”  -Venerable Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis, #27, 12 August 1950
All the statements above are beautifully coherent. There is no contradiction in them. In them, the Church explains and teaches one Truth. The emphases are obviously mine. 
Lionel: However Mundabor and the SSPX contradict  extra ecclesiam nulla salus :-
Cushingite extra ecclesiam nulla salus replaces Feeneyite  extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).Cushingite EENS assumes that the baptism of desire etc, refer to explicit cases and so they are exceptions to Feeneyite EENS. I support Feeneyite EENS.With the baptism of desire being an exception to EENS, Mundabor supports Cushingite EENS.

Here are the four points mentioned in a previous blog which Mundabor, Chris Ferrara and the other traditionalists use to contradict Feeneyite EENS.

1.Invisible cases are visible in the present times ( 1960-2016).
2.Lumen Gentium 16 ( invincible ignorance) and Lumen Gentium 14 ( baptism of desire) refer to a visible case.
3.Vatican Council II contradicts the Feeneyite interpretation of the dogma EENS since Lumen Gentium 16 etc are visible exceptions to the dogma.
4.The dogma EENS has exceptions. They are the baptism of desire and blood and being saved in invincible ignorance, all without the baptism of water.

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Please read all these statements attentively. Then reflect on the following: 
Cantate domino does not state that a man who does not want to be damned must make a conscious, voluntary, publicly communicated decision to leave his heresy and join the Only Church. The requirement to avoid hell is that he be joined with Her before Death.
Lionel: Yes.
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God, who is Omnipotent, can certainly join anyone He wishes to save to the Only Church before death. 
Lionel: Yes.
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He can do that either by giving the soul of the man the consciousness that he is wrong and the Church is right, and a desire to be part of Her, just before his death (and neither you or I need be informed about the fact), or by joining him with Her of His own decree because the man was particularly good and God has decreed that he has died ininvincible ignorance and is, therefore, worthy of becoming part of the Church before his death.
Lionel: Yes hypothetically. Yes, in theory.Since you and I would not know of any such case in real life.
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Christ is the Bridegroom. The Church is the Bride. It follows that Christ will not admit to the presence of the Bridegroom those whom He has not decreed to be joined with the Bride.
Lionel: He has decreed that all non Catholics with no known exceptions to us human beings, are oriented to Hell, unless they be incorporated as members of the Church. He has decreed it in the dogma EENS quoted by Mundabor above.
So it means all non Catholics in 2016 are on the way to Hell unless they formally convert into the Church; unless they have their names on the Parish Baptism Register.
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This is all very linear, very logical, elegantly unavoidable from the premises of Truth.
Lionel:
Yes it is logical and traditional for me who affirms EENS Feeneyite and Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church ( Feeneyite).
I reject EENS Cushingite and Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church ( Cushingite) as interpreted by Mundabor.
Mundabor also accepts the second part of the Letter of the Holy Office which says not everyone needs to be incorporated into the Church as a member.It presumes there is known salvation. So the second part of the Letter contradicts the first part of the Letter which affirms Feeneyite EENS.
I reject the second part of the Letter, since it is irrational, non traditional and heretical and I accept the first part of the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 which is traditional and not heretical and rational.
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Where the problems begin is when the “imprudent zeal for souls” leads people to talk nonsense for an apparently good, but  ultimately childish desire to see everyone (or almost everyone) saved; a childish desire and wishful thinking which, in fact, contributes to the damnation of those the childish person is so desirous to see saved, and might well be dangerous for the salvation of this person himself.  
We cannot say, with absolute certainty, that this or that just deceased Proddie, or Infidel, or Unbeliever has gone to hell. 
Lionel:
We cannot say so with our personal judgement or knowledge.This is something that would only be known to God.However  we can say that a particular Protestant or Jew or atheist has gone to Hell since the Holy Spirit guides the Catholic Church to teach extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Being incorporated into the Catholic Church as a member is the only means of salvation.It is the norm.
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Every single one of them might, just might, have saved his ass to Purgatory in the end. Odds don’t count here. We can just not exclude it, no matter how little the odds. 
Lionel:
All need faith and baptism for salvation(Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II).There cannot be subjectively known exceptions to the Catholic teaching on faith( exclusive salvation in the Church) or morals ( objective mortal sins).
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But we also cannot say that one particular sperm will not manage to fecundate the ovule. We cannot say that, no matter how little the odds!
Good luck, you little sperm. I wish you well. I really do.
Allow me not to bet my pint on you, though… 
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Being humans, we can’t avoid asking ourselves: “how are the odds”? 
The answer lies in the simple phrase extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Seen that the “being joined with Her before death” by Divine Decree must be an exceptional circumstance (otherwise, you will agree, it would not make much sense, and in the extreme it would not make any sense at all, to be a Catholic in the first place) the odds can’t be good at all; in fact they must be, in descending order, from bad to absolutely terrifying for Proddies, Infidels, and Unbelievers*. How many of them will, without any obvious decision to convert, be fished out from Christ from the very jaws of Hell? We don’t know, but as stated above, it can only be the exception. He who stakes his salvation on God making an exception for him is, it seems to me, a presumptuous idiot. 
Lionel:
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus, as quoted in the dogma above, always meant all with no exceptions.It is liberal theology,Rahner's theology, which considered the baptism of desire etc as being explicit.So it was not more all needing to enter the Church formally.Rahner's new theology is used by Mundabor.
The same error is there in the Baltimore Catechism (1891) .It is assumed that the desire for the baptism of water of a hypothetical catechumen, who dies before receiving it , was an explicit case and so it was a known baptism like the baptism of water.
The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 also mixed up what is hypothetical as being objectively known.So it rejected the dogma EENS ( Feeneyite) by saying not every one needs to be incorporated into the Church.The Baltimore Catechism error was repeated in subsequent catechisms.
Mundabor repeats the same error.The two popes do the same.
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Another important element must be derived from these reflections: there can be no true saintliness outside of the Church. “No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Lionel: The reference in the dogma EENS is to salvation.It is not a reference to the presence of the Holy Spirit in other religions.Christ could choose to work miracles or give charisms to Protestants or  non Catholics. We know that many non Catholics have converted into the Catholic Church. This would be with the grace of the Holy Spirit, to whom they responded positively.
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There is nothing like a “Protestant Saint”. There is also nothing like “protestant saintliness”.Every Protestant is marching towards hell. His piety and love for the Lord, his Christian zeal – no matter how strong; and I am sure it is very strong in many of them – avail him nothing, until and unless he is joined with the Church before death. Let us not kid ourselves about this, lest our “imprudent zeal for souls” makes their path far more difficult, and encourages them to walk toward a cliff out of which only the merciful hand of the Lord can save the one or other of them when they have their feet almost in mid-air.
Lionel:
Protestants are on the way to Hell.
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What a blessing it is, to be a Catholic! How easier it is for us to safely travel through the perilous sea of life from the security of the Barque! How many, who think themselves too good for it, will drown! The greatest blessing of my life was to be born a Catholic. The second, to be born with a strong faith. Yes, in this order
Lionel: This was a blessing for me too, in the same order.
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There is no salvation outside of the Church. The one or other will save their backside by being fished in by Our Lord just at the very last moment. But no one can say that he thinks that they will be very many and believe in extra ecclesiam nulla salus at the same time.   
Lionel:
According to Vatican Council II(AG 7, LG 14) the majority of people are on the way to Hell. Since they die without 'faith and baptism', which is needed for all, for salvation(to avoid Hell).Mundabor does not cite the Council here.Since the SSPX assumes that Vatican Council II contradicts the old ecclesiology which supported an ecumenism of return and need for all non Christians to formally enter the Church.Here we can see the influence of Rahner's theology, the New Theology, Cushingite theology which infers there are known exceptions to the dogma EENS, quoted by Mundabor above.
-Lionel Andrades
https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/extra-ecclesiam-nulla-salus/
* For these, of course, they might have received the grace of faith and being joined with the Church before dying. If they died in their atheism, the matter is settled already. But this is why the Church teaches us to pray for our relatives and loved ones who apparently died in their atheism.  

3 comments:

George Brenner said...

Lionel,

I firmly believe in the following:

" We also saw that the liberals taking passages out of context, claimed that Pope Pius IX taught that a person involved in invincible ignorance of the true faith could be saved. Here again is the whole relevant section from the encyclical Quanto conficiamur of 1863:

“And here, beloved Sons and Venerable Brethren, it is necessary once more to mention and censure the serious error into which some Catholics have unfortunately fallen. For they are of the opinion that men who live in errors, estranged from the true faith and from Catholic unity, can attain eternal life. This is in direct opposition to Catholic teaching. We all know that those who are afflicted with invincible ignorance with regard to our holy religion, if they carefully keep the precepts of the natural law that have been written by God in the hearts of all men, if they are prepared to obey God, and if they lead a virtuous and dutiful life, can attain eternal life by the power of divine light and grace. For God, Who reads comprehensively in every detail the minds and souls, the thoughts and habits of all men, will not permit, in accordance with his infinite goodness and mercy, anyone who is not guilty of a voluntary fault to suffer eternal torments (suppliciis). However, also well-known is the Catholic dogma that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church, and that those who obstinately oppose the authority and definitions of the Church, and who stubbornly remain separated from the unity of the Church and from the successor of Peter, the Roman Pontiff (to whom the Saviour has entrusted the care of His vineyard), cannot attain salvation.” (Denz 1677)
Pope Pius IX nowhere in this passage says that a person involved in invincible ignorance will be saved if he remains in that state, but by God’s grace, such a person will be led to the Catholic faith and to the Church, as St. Thomas teaches. Vatican Council II in the “Decree on the Church’s Missionary Activity” is very clear on this point. We read in Ad Gentes: “So although in ways known to Himself God can lead those, who through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel to that faith without which it is impossible to please Him” (Ad Gentes, 1,7)."


George Brenner

Catholic Mission said...

Yes,we can believe in some of the things said here at a speculative, theoretical level.However you have not addressed the key points mentioned in this report and neither has Mundabor on his blog. I posted it to him as soon as I wrote it.

Catholic Mission said...

Mundabor has no comment and cannot correct me

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2016/09/mundabor-has-no-comment-and-cannot.html