CARDINAL RATZINGER REMAINED SILENT IN THE FR.LEONARD FEENEY CASE?! WAS HIS ARM BEING TWISTED AS NOW?

Dictatorship of relativism within the Catholic Church

Was Cardinal Ratzinger himself confused on the issue or was he afraid to offend the Zionists with the truth?

For the Jewish Left it is their political position that Fr. Feeney was anti Semitic and that he was excommunicated for holding to the literal interpretation of the dogma.

Yes he held the interpretation of the dogma so how could he be excommunicated for it. Here is the dogma he affirmed.

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

The actual dogma (above) says everyone with no exception needs to be a formal member of the Catholic Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.

Cardinal Ratzinger in a an interview with the Jewish Left magazine Times did not say the dogma was ex cathedra.Neither did he say that it was  the same teaching held by Fr. Leonard Feeney.Neither did he say that this was the official teaching of the church in the past and the present. Instead he said that the teaching on extra ecclesiam nulla salus was relevant only for that time. ( The Trinity was given to us by a Council in the fourth century.So?) This was not the teaching of the Magisterium.

He placed no contradiction in the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding  the secular media reports which said that Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for heresy.

Was the cardinal confused and later convinced by Fr. Hans Kung‘s book which said that Lumen Gentium 16 contradicted the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus i.e. there can be people saved in other religions who are in invincible ignorance etc. (How can it contradict the dogma when we do not know a single case of a person being saved in invincible ignorance or  the baptism of desire? LG 16 refers to  those saved and explicitly known only to God. It is always implicit for us.Common sense not theology!)

Perhaps he was not confused. Since the way the Catechism is written especially CCC 1257 indicates Cardinal Ratzinger was indirectly promoting the rigorist interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus i.e. there are those saved de facto with the baptism of water and Catholic Faith and this is the ordinary way of salvation while there can be those saved with the Sacraments (without us seeing them visibly receive the Sacraments), but known only to God. They could have received the Sacraments and the necessary help and this would be known only to God. This was the traditional position of St. Thomas Aquinas. Conceptually ( in principle) he accepted the existence of the man in the forest in invincible ignorance while he taught that de facto ( in reality) everyone with no exception needs to be a formal member of the church for salvation.

So was it because of  the fear of being accused of anti Semitism and offending the influential Zionists that he allowed the confusion on this issue to continue ?

The bottom line is that he allowed people to believe what is not the teaching of the Catholic Church and what really was the political position of The Tablet, U.K, National Catholic Reporter and Jewish Left publications and media. These publications would not issue a clarification or contradiction when informed about the true position of the Fr. Feeney case. Since they wanted people to believe in what is not the teaching of the Catholic Church. Then they would claim that ‘everybody believes this’ and ‘how can you change the belief of everybody’.

 Fr. Feeney was not defended because the Vatican was protecting itself.

Fr. Feeney was excommunicated for disobedience and not doctrine. The first half of the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 deals with doctrine and the second half with discipline. The secular media mixes this up.

1). If he was excommunicated for heresy then the Holy Office 1949 was wrong and made a mistake.

2) Assuming he was excommunicated for  heresy then the Letter of the Holy Office contradicts the thrice defined dogma (above). The  Letter issued by Cardinal Ottaviani (1949) was in error?

An infallible teaching supersedes a Letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the (Holy Office).

There is no Church document which says that Fr.Leonard  Feeney was excommunicated for heresy.

So for Cardinal Ratzinger to deny an ex cathedra dogma in public (Times interview etc) means he is in :

1. First Class heresy. It is the denial of the Creed. The necessity of the baptism of water and Catholic Faith for all for salvation.

2. It was a lie to appease the Zionists.

3. It was an injustice done to a Catholic priest.

Read the dogma Cantate Domino above. Was the cardinal, now pope, so afraid of the Jewish Left and their Catholic supporters that he did not use the actual text in the Catechism of the Catholic Church?

He let the confusion continue among Catholics’

Pope Benedict XVI is my pope and I pray for him. However he is in public mortal sin for denying an ex cathedra dogma in public.

 Pope Benedict has recently confirmed that present day Jews do not have to convert into the Catholic Church to go to Heaven. This new teaching of the Catholic Church is not based on any new Christian Revelation but to avoid the threats of the Jewish Left against the Vatican.( “Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times”, Peter Seewald, Ignatius Press, 2010).

Now it has all become public and is no more a secret.