Religious students at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome are invited annually by the Angelicum to choose a thesis. One of the options available is the subject ‘outside the church there is no salvation’.
Bro. Benedict, from Kerala, India is the Priest In charge at the Missionaries of Charity Contemplative Men’s house in Rome.He chose this subject. It was approved by the moderator. Bro. Benedict received his theology degree from the Angelicum.
The moderator approved his thesis since he repeated the liberal lie that Fr. Leonard Feeney rejected the possibility of non Catholics being saved with the baptism of desire and invincible ignorance. and that he held the ‘rigorist interpretation’ of the dogma outside the church there is no salvation.
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The students do not ask in their thesis how could Fr. Leonard Feeney be excommunicated for holding the same position as the popes, the saints, the Church Fathers and the dogma itself?
The dogma thrice defined by three Councils does not mention non Catholics being saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire. So Fr. Leonard Feeney did not say anything different.
How can being saved in invincible ignorance the baptism of desire be an exception to the dogma when we do not know any such explicit case in the present times.
Where is the magisterial text which refers to these cases as being explicit and so contradicting the dogma; contradicting the ‘rigorist interpretation’ of the dogma?
Where does Vatican Council II refer to non Catholics being saved explicitly and in known cases in invincible ignorance, the baptism of desire, a good conscience, in partial communion with the Church and by the Word of God?
Where does the Letter of the Holy Office of Pope Pius XII say that Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for heresy and not disobedience ?
Did not the Letter of the Holy Office refer to ‘the dogma’, ‘the infallible statement’ and does not the dogma indicate that all non Catholics in Boston and the rest of the world need to convert visibly into the Catholic Church for salvation? Was this not exactly what Fr. Leonard Feeney preached?
If we do not know of any explicit case of someone being saved with the baptism of desire etc then how can we expect Fr.Leonard Feeney to claim that these are exceptions to the dogma?
Can this really be the teaching of the Catholic Church as stated by the secular media when the magisterial texts say otherwise ?
Similarly Fr. Francesco Giardano, an Italian Diocesan priest had the present Rector of the Angelicum University as his moderator. He mentioned Fr. Leonard Feeney extensively and with the same errors. He was granted a Licentiate degree by the Angelicum.
This is the corrupt system in the Pontifical Universities here on the subject of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.A priest may affirm the dogma in private but at the University to get his degree he has to repeat the errors of the faculty in this case reject an ex cathedra dogma with an irrational comment.-Lionel Andrades
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You obviously don't know anything about how Pontifical Universities work. There is no list of theses. The student proposes his own. Thus, there is no plot against Fr. Feeney.
There is a list of subjects from which a student can choose for the graduate and undergraduate clases.
For the post graduate degrees the student proposes his own with the approval of the professor.
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus is on the approved list. The students who chooses it has to assume that invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are explicit exception to the dogma.
This is what the professors believe and this is what they expect.
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