Saturday, October 22, 2011

MISSION SUNDAY : ANNOUNCEMENT

Mission Sunday: Announcement

Dear Catholics,

Please note that contrary to the widespread misinformation there is no Magisterial text which says Fr. Leonard Feeney of Boston was excommunicated for heresy. So the Church has not retracted the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus defined by three Church Councils.

Secondly, we do not know any case of a non Catholic saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire. So Vatican Council II does not contradict the dogma. According to Cantate Domino, Council of Florence and Vatican Council II (LG 14, AG 7) all non Catholics, Christians included need to enter the Church with Catholic Faith and the baptism of water (AG 7, LG 14) to avoid the fires of Hell.

Please place this announcement in any media available, Catholic or secular, no permission is required.-Lionel Andrades

PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY INDICATES POPES, SAINTS IN HERESY

Makes factual error in 2004 report released on the internet. Subtle criticism of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Unbelievable but it’s true. The Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, Vatican claims Pope Pius XII condemned in 1949 ‘an exclusive interpretation’ of the dogma “Extra ecclesiam nulla salus”.(1)

This is a reference to the priest Fr. Leonard Feeney of Boston. It is assumed by the Pontifical Council that he was excommunicated for heresy. Since he preached that everyone needs to be a visible, formal member of the Catholic Church for salvation. He recognized no exceptions as the baptism of desire or non Catholics being saved in invincible ignorance.

1. A reading of the text of the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office issued during the pontificate of Venerable Pope Pius XII shows that no where is it said that Fr. Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for heresy.

2. Assuming he was excommunicated for heresy then it would mean that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Holy Office) claims numerous popes, saints, the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus thrice defined, as heretical. It would mean  Vatican Council II (LG 14,AG 7) is also heretical.

The dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus indicates every non Catholic needs to convert into the Church for salvation. It does not refer to invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire as an exception. Fr. Leonard Feeney preached this teaching. This was the centuries-old interpretation of the dogma.

Vatican Council II (LG 14, AG 7) tells us that all need Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation. No magisterial text, including Vatican Council II says that those saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire is explicitly known to us. Since they are always implicit they do not contradict the dogma or LG 14, AG 7 of Vatican Council II.

Vatican Council II admits the possibility of a non Catholic being saved in invincible ignorance, the baptism of desire, a good conscience etc. However it does not claim that these cases are known to us.

The Pontifical Council for Christian Unity suggests Pope Pius XII contradicted himself in the Letter of the Holy Office. Since Pope Pius XII referred to ‘the dogma’, ‘the infallible teaching’. The dogma Cantate Domino, Council of Florence tells us that all non Catholics in Boston and the rest of the world are oriented to the fires of Hell unless they enter the Catholic Church and remain a member. The dogma specifically mentions Orthodox Christians and Protestants. So Pope Pius XII here supports Fr. Leonard Feeney on doctrine;  on the dogma.

With the Assisi interfaith meeting next week and criticism of the false ecumenism, of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity probably this  report with an objective, factual error was made available.

For discerning Catholics this 2004 report is a slander of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican and its Prefect, Cardinal William Levada.
-Lionel Andrades
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1.
In the course of the Council the “subsistit in” took the place of the previous “est”.[7] It contains in nuce the whole ecumenical problem.[8] The “est” claimed that the church of Christ Jesus “is” the Catholic Church. This strict identification of the church of Christ Jesus with the Catholic Church had been represented most recently in the encyclicals Mystici corporis (1943) and Humani generis (1950).[9] But even according to Mystici corporis there are people who, although they have not yet been baptised, are subsumed under the Catholic Church because that is their express desire (DS 3921). Therefore Pius XII had condemned an exclusive interpretation of the axiom “Extra ecclesiam nulla salus” already in 1949.-Pontifical Council For Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican Nov. 11,2004, the Decree on Ecumenism Read Anew After Forty Years.              http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/card-kasper-docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20041111_kasper-ecumenism_en.html
Friday, October 21, 2011

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity claims Pope Pius XII condemned the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus :suggests those in invincible ignorance are explicitly known to us and so contradicts the dogma
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2011/10/pontifical-council-for-promoting.html