FR.MASIMILLIANO DEGASPARI EXPLAINS THE IMPORTANCE OF A DOGMA

Father Masimillian Degaspari refers  to the dogma of the Assumption into Heaven of Our Lady, in body and soul as Pope Pius XII taught (1). The Church believes in the Assumption of the Mother of God in body and soul.

Fr. Masimillino Degaspari F.I has explained the dogma of the Assumption into Heaven of Our Lady, body and soul in Il Settimanale di Padre Pio, the weekly of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.

Similarly extra ecclesiam nulla salus is also a dogma of the Church defined by three councils. It is a dogma of the Church which does not refer to those saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire. It does not claim that these are exceptions to the dogmatic teaching  that every one needs to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid the fires of Hell. (Cantate Domino, Council of Florence).

There are no Church documents also which claim that those saved in invincible ignorance (Lumen Gentium 16, Vatican Council II) are explicitly known and so contradict the dogma.

To suggest that everyone needs to enter the Church except for those in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire is heresy. It is rejecting the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

The three Popes  who  gave us the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus knew that those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are implicit and so do not contradict the dogma. So they did not mention it.

Similarly St. Thomas Aquinas mentioned the possibility of the man in the forest in ignorance, who could be saved but at the same time St. Thomas Aquinas affirmed the ‘rigorist interpretation’ of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 did not say that Fr.Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for heresy but for disobedience. The excommunication was lifted without the priest having to recant.

The participants at this seminar allege that everyone on earth does not have to enter the Church through Catholic Faith and the baptism of water since there could be some people saved with the baptism of desire or in invincible ignorance. They assume that these cases are  not implicit but explicit and so are exceptions to the dogma which Pope Pius XII called an ‘infallible statement’ (Letter of the Holy office 1949).

This is the error being made by priests and seminarians at the Philosophy Seminary of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate in Boccea, Rome where Fr. Settimo Manelli F.I is the Rector. Fr. Settimo, one of the speakers at the symposium along with Fr. Massimiliano DeGaspari ,will not publicly affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2011/07/seminarian-of-franciscan-friars-of.html#links 
This is also the error (heresy?) of Fr. Giovanni Manelli F.I, on of the speakers at this symposium who consider those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire as explicitly known and so contradicting the dogma.

Both of them are admirable, good priests and are probably just picking up what others repeat without thinking.

-Lionel Andrades

E-mail: lionelandrades10@gmail.com

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Fr.Masimilliano Degaspari F.I says:

The fundamentals of a dogma are not strictly  theological, biblical or patristic  reasoning but Faith that is universal and which the Church teaches. A faith that helps define a dogma with the universal consensus of the ordinary magisterium of the Church.Il Settimanale di Padre Pio, Ottobre 2, 2011. Speciale Simposio Mariologico Internazionale di Padre Serafico M. Lanzetta F. I)

Its a mortal sin to deny the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. It is a sacrilege to receive the Eucharist in this condition- Fr. Gabrielle, priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-mortal-sin-to-deny-dogma-extra.html#links

Photo from Approfondimenti di "Fides Catholica" Il Settimanale di P. Pio, n. 29, 25 luglio 2010, pp. 15-25