Seminarians need to be aware of an error being taught in the next academic year 2011-2012. The error could be held in ignorance by priests and professors. The error is to assume that we can meet someone in Rome saved with the baptism of desire or baptism of blood (martyrdom). It is to imply that we can know someone in particular at the Vatican saved with the baptism of desire. The error is to assume that we know a person saved in invincible ignorance; who has never heard the Gospel through no fault of his own in his hometown or Angola, Africa. This would be seeing a ghost!
We accept that a person is in Heaven when the Church declares someone a martyr or saint but in general we do not know particular cases. Only God can judge the heart of a person and who is saved in implicit salvation. Implicit baptism of desire can never be explicitly known to us.
The error is: ‘assuming implicit salvation is explicitly known to us’. This would mean Lumen Gentium 14 contradicts Lumen Gentium 15 and 16. Also other Magisterial texts appear irrational.
Pope John Paul II would contradict himself in that Catechism of the Catholic Church n.1257. Also, for example, the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 which Venerable Pope Pius XII issued to the Archbishop of Boston would be contradictory. This Letter mentions ‘the dogma’, the ‘infallible teaching’. The text of the dogma Cantate Domino, Council of Florence indicates every non Catholic in Boston needs to be a visible, formal member of the Church for salvation. This Letter also mentions those who can be saved with a baptism of desire, ‘in certain circumstances’. Catholics make an error here and assume that the Baptism of Desire is explicitly known to us and it is the ordinary way of salvation. So they assume it contradicts ‘the dogma’ which indicates everyone needs to be an explicit member of the Church with no exception.
The baptism of desire is always implicit and unknown to us so how can it contradict the dogma?
The Letter of the Holy Office does not say that Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for heresy but for disobedience. Yet when the error of explicitly known baptism of desire is taught, it would mean Fr. Leonard Feeney, the popes and saints were in heresy. So also was St. Thomas Aquinas? They held the centuries- old teaching that everyone needs to be a visible member of the Church for salvation.
So Vatican Council II does not contradict the dogma extra eccleisam nulla salus. Neither does it contradict the popes and saints. Lumen Gentium 16 refers to those saved implicitly in invincible ignorance. We do not know anyone in Rome saved with a good conscience, partial communion with the Church or the Word of God.The error of an explicitly known implicit salvation would be an irrational interpretation of Vatican Council II.
Catholics need to reflect on this error: we do not know any case of a person saved in invincible ignorance, as, we can know of a person receiving the baptism of water or being taught Catholic prayers.
Seminarians- watch out for the explicitly known implicit salvation in the next academic year.
-Lionel Andrades
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