EWTN WITHOUT MOTHER ANGELICA IS REJECTING THE CHURCH TEACHING ON EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS

EWTN WITHOUT MOTHER ANGELICA IS REJECTING THE CHURCH TEACHING ON EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS



When Mother Angelica was there at EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) there was a page on their website devoted to the Church teaching outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation.Mother Angelica insisted that this was the teaching of the Church and made available a list of Church Fathers who affirmed what later became a dogma at the Council of Florence.

 Fr.William Most's artcile on the EWTN website, The Church and Salvation and his article on the internet, The Tragic Errors of Fr.Leonard Feeney placed by EWTN on the internet indicate there is dissent at EWTN and a rejection of the Church's teachings.

Fr.Most is never ever able to affirm, in his two articles,  the ex cathedra  dogma.
Here is the ex cathedra dogma:

1. “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215). Ex cathedra.

2.“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, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.).Ex cathedra.

3.“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. 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 he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) Ex cathedra – from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholicchurch.blogspot.com/

The ex cathedra teaching says everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church.

...it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 302.). Ex Cathedra

..none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation…

...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 he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” - (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) Ex Cathedra

The Vatican endorsed this dogma  in  the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston 1949. The dogma is that -de facto all; eveyone needs to enter the Catholic Church with no exceptions for salvation. It referred to the dogma as the infallible teaching.

This is an ex cathedra, infallible teaching of three different Councils,which is consistent with Vatican Council II ( Ad Gentes 7). It is obligatory for all Catholics to believe in it. It is like the Immaculate Conception, which is also a dogma.Those who reject this teaching are in mortal sin and need the Sacrement of Reconcilliation.

When Fr.Most rejects it in public he is in manifest mortal sin and was  not to receive the Eucharist or offer Holy Mass until he had gone for Confession and made public amends (rectify the scandal).
 EWTN continues to make available the dissenting articles which is sacrilegous cooperation.

The teaching extra ecclesiam nulla salus is an ecumenical point we have in common with the Orthodox Churches, are sister churches, who also uphold that all people without exception need to enter the Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.