Of course they can be saved who have the Baptism of Desire or are in invincible ignorance but why has this teaching to be placed before, and in opposition, to the infallible dogma which says everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to avoid Hell?
Where is the Church Document which says that we must interpret these two teachings in this way?
Where does the Magisterium state this?
Nowhere.
Then why does the average Catholic say that everyone needs to enter the Catholic Church except for those in invincible ignorance etc?
It’s because of the tragic errors of the Jewish Left media, Catholic organizations (Jeffrey Mirus, Trinity Communications) and priests like the late Fr. William Most.
On Oct.13, 1952 Times has carried a report Religion: I Preach Hatred. It criticizes Fr. Leonard Feeney. It says the Archbishop of Boston suspended the Jesuit priest because 'he took literally the Catholic doctrine that “outside the church there is no salvation” i.e. insisting that everyone who is not a good Catholic will go to hell. ‘This report made available on the Internet even today shows the bias which has been cultivated and maintained.
Yet what Fr. Leonard Feeney said was the literal Catholic teaching which can be seen in the text of the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus which TIME would dare not publish. It indicates all Jews and other non Catholics are on the path to Hell unless they convert into the Catholic Church, the only Church of the Jewish Messiah with whom God made an everlasting Covenant for all time. The dogma also indicates that all Jews in Boston are on the way to Hell as Fr. Leonard Feeney taught and so did the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston relative to Fr. Leonard Feeney 1949.
Now, among those things which the Church has always preached and will never cease to preach is contained also that infallible statement by which we are taught that there is no salvation outside the Church.
However, this dogma must be understood in that sense in which the Church herself understands it. For, it was not to private judgments that Our Savior gave for explanation those things that are contained in the deposit of faith, but to the teaching authority of the Church.-Letter of the Holy Office (Emphasis added)
Propaganda 1.They claim Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated because of his literal interpretation of the dogma .The media have created a phrase ‘rigorist interpretation’, as if there could be two interpretations of an ex cathedra dogma defined three times.
Propaganda 2. They claim Vatican Council II (Lumen Gentium 16 etc) refers to explicit Baptism of Desire and invincible ignorance and that Fr. Leonard Feeney denies an explicit Baptism of Desire and so do his religious communities in the USA. They are in heresy is the consistent propaganda of the Jewish Left dominated media.
Curiously when you access Fr.Leonard Feeney on Google you are referred to a report placed by Trinity Communications. It is titled TRAGIC ERRORS OF LEONARD FEENEY by Fr. William Most.
Here is the actual ex cathedra dogma referred to by Pope Pius XII in the Letter of the Holy Office in 1949 and which Fr.Leonard Feeney affirmed. Fr.William Most, Mirus and the Jewish Left media claim it does not state that everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to be saved. This false information is also posted by Fr.Most on the wesbite of EWTN.The dogma contradicts Fr.Wiliam Most and Trinity Communications.
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
CatholicCulture.org denies that the above infallible teaching says everyone needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church with no exception. Is it not obvious that the dogma says there are no exceptions and everyone needs to be formal member of the Church to avoid Hell?
Feenyism is the official teaching of the Catholic Church at the time of Fr.Leonard Feeney and even today.
Dominus Iesus indicates that Feeneyism is the ordinary path of salvation (Redemptoris Missio 55).There is no theology which can say that non Catholic religions are paths to salvation (CDF, Notification, Dupuis 2001).
It was Cardinal Richard Cushing, the Archbishop of Boston who allowed the media, like Times, to misinterpret the Letter of the Holy Office and the dogma while he remained silent. That misinterpretation is widely used by Catholics all over the world. They believe it is the official teaching of the Catholic Church.It is really the interpretation of Time magazine and the rest of the political left.
LETTER OF THE HOLY OFFICE 1949 SUPPORTS FR.LEONARD FEENEY
The Letter supported Fr. Leonard Feeney yet the secular media reports it was against him.
The first part of the Letter refers to doctrine and the second half to discipline. Yet the two are mixed by the media and Catholics.
The first half the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston relative to Fr. Leonard Feeney affirms the ‘dogma’ the ‘infallible’ teaching .The text of the dogma supports Fr. Feeney. It indicates everyone needs to be a visible member of the Church and there are no exceptions. (See the text of the dogma at the end of this report) It also does not refer to ‘explicit’ Baptism of desire as an exception.
So how can Fr. Leonard Feeney be in heresy?
The second half of the Letter accuses Fr. Feeney of being disobedient. Time has shown that it was the Archbishop of Boston Richard Cushing who gave us a new doctrine. It said: everybody needs to enter the church except for those with the Baptism of Desire, in invincible ignorance etc. This is heresy. He and the Jesuits were saying that everyone does not have to be a visible member of the Catholic Church and there was such a thing as an explicit baptism of desire etc.
The Archbishop never issued a clarification when the Boston newspapers reported that the Church had changed its centuries-old teaching on extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Even after he received the Letter he did not lift the excommunication on Fr. Feeney. He also had an important role in Vatican Council II and Lumen Gentium 16 reflects his and the Jesuits influence.
St. Maximillian Kolbe says that if your Superior teaches heresy you are not obliged to obey. Fr. Leonard Feeney and St. Benedict centre rightly disobeyed.
However the Lumen Gentium 16 text is neutral and it can be interpreted in harmony with the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Secondly the cardinal’s explicit Baptism of Desire is explicit for God only. We do not know if there ever was an explicit Baptism of desire in our lifetime.
Finally, assuming Fr. Feeney was in heresy (according to a misinterpretation of the Letter), as the secular media allege, how can the ordinary Magisterium of a pope, or, a cardinal’s (Ottaviani) statement supersede and contradict an ex cathedra dogma, in this case, thrice defined ?
So the Catholic Church’s teaching remains unchanged: Everyone needs Catholic Faith with the Baptism of water to go to Heaven and avoid Hell and if there is someone in genuine invincible ignorance etc it will be known only to God.
The Letter’s portion on discipline/disobedience must not be confused with the earlier section on doctrine/dogma.
The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 supports Fr.Leonard Feeney and the media reports that the Letter from the Vatican condemned Fr.Feeney for heresy. There is no clarification from the present Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley.
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