HOW IS THE SSPX IN HERESY? : FORUM ASKS.

HOW IS THE SSPX IN HERESY? : FORUM ASKS.

How the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in heresy is is a question asked of me on an SSPX website forum and the issue is NOT the Novus Ordo Mass nor that the SSPX priests and bishops have not got canonical status in the Catholic Church and offer Mass.

The issue is:

1. Rejecting in writing and public (SSPX website) an ex cathedra dogma

2. Libel and calumny against a Catholic priest, which also a grave sin is according the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

3. Coperating with dissidents and heretics in misinforming Catholics

The report Fr.Feeney and Catholic Doctrine on the Society of St. Pius X seminary website has the approval of the SSPX bishops.

I. The ex cathedra dogma says clearly everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church and there are no exceptions. The SSPX website claims there are.

II. There is no Church Document which states that Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for heresy. The website claims he was.

III. The ex cathedra dogma does not say that those with the Baptism of Desire do not have to convert. Neither does it say that only those who know about the Church need to enter, to avoid Hell. This is SSPX heresy.

Here is the ex cathedra dogma which does not say that those who have the Baptism of desire or are in invincible ignorance do not have to enter the Catholic Church.

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, 302.). 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 emphasis in blue says one has to be an explicit, visible member of the Catholic Church for salvation. This has been the teaching of Fr. Leonard Feeney and this is being criticized by the SSPX. This is blatant heresy.

To reject an ex cathedra dogma or to change its meaning is ‘grave matter’. The SSPX has been informed and they are continuing with the sin in public. This is manifest public mortal sin. There 400 priests offer the Tridentine Rite Mass in this serious condition.

Fr. Leonard Feeney affirmed the above dogma so how could he be in heresy? This is slander and a scandal which is also grave matter for a mortal sin.

It is the secular which has been repeatedly been saying that no more does one have to become a visible member of the Catholic Church. The SPPX repeats the error of those whom they call ‘liberals’.

The secular media and the SSPX  say Fr. Feeney was excommunicated for saying that everyone with no exception needs to be a member of the Catholic Church. The dogma says that and so how could he be excommunicated for heresy. One has to be an explicit member of the Catholic Church, according to the infallible teaching above, to be saved from Hell.

Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the SSPX and Bishop Richard Williamson have been saying all non Catholics need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation but the SSPX has also been using the mantra ‘except for those in invincible ignorance and with the baptism of desire’. So they are vague on this subject. It is 'yes' and 'but', its Yes and No.

The dogma above shows that Fr. Leonard Feeney was not in heresy. Instead it is Archbishop Richard Cushing who has given the SSPX a new doctrine. He was tacitly saying implicit baptism of desire was as explicit as the baptism of water. This is heretical since it contradicts the infallible teaching.

The SSPX claims that the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston 1949 was critical of Fr. Leonard Feeney. The Letter supported Fr. Feeney’s position in as much it indicated all Jews in Boston need to convert to avoid Hell (see dogma above).

So the Letter of the Holy Office was endorsing the infallible teaching, as it is, and so was Fr. Leonard Feeney.

It is said that Fr. Leonard Feeney rejected the baptism of desire and so was a heretic. He was saying that there is no baptism of desire that one can know of explicitly. Explicit baptism of desire is the Richard Cushing heresy. It is contrary to the principle of non contradiction.

There is no de facto Baptism of Desire on earth presently that the SSPX know of.

There is no de jure Baptism of Desire on earth, presently that the SSPX knows of.

The SSPX cannot say that there were five cases of the Baptism of Desire last month in Rome.

The Baptism of Desire is only a general concept which we accept in principle. So how can the SSPX heretically suggest that it contradicts the infallible teaching that everyone needs to explicitly (with Catholic Faith and the Baptism of water) be a member of the Church to avoid Hell.

The misinformation is being promoted publicly by the SSPX for scores of years. There is no correction.

St. Alphonsus Ligouri states that if you know a priest or bishop who is in mortal sin do not go to receive the Sacraments from him unless it was an emergency and you had no other choice i.e. if you needed to fulfil your Sunday obligation and there was no other church where you could go for Mass (Teologia Moralis Bk.3, 47). St. Alphonsus, Father of Moral Theology says it would be a sin against religion and charity to go to him for the Sacraments. Since if you know that the priest is in mortal sin you need to tell him about it and avoid going to him for the Sacraments. Otherwise your message would be, ‘all is well’, and even though you know that he is oriented to Hell. This is not charity.

On this issue it is possible that an SSPX priest could be misinformed by the secular media about the Leonard Feeney Boston Case and so could be innocently ignorant.

However it is clear that the SSPX is

1. Rejecting in writing and public (SSPX website) an ex cathedra dogma with

2. Libel and calumny against a Catholic priest, which also is a grave sin according the Catechism of the Catholic Church and

3. Coperating with dissidents and heretics in misinforming Catholics
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