Tuesday, November 8, 2011

FR. PETER SCOTT, SSPX NEED TO ISSUE A CLARIFICATION: HOW CAN THOSE SAVED IN INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE AND THE BAPTISM OF DESIRE BE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DOGMA?


Often on the internet priests and lay members of the Society of St. Pius X state that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre said a non Catholic can be saved (1). Then they assume that this is an exception to the dogma and Fr. Leonard Feeney. It is assumed that Fr. Leonard Feeney was wrong in saying everyone needs to be a visible member of the Church with no exceptions.It is also assumed that he was excommunicated for heresy.

Fr. Peter Scott and Fr. Francois Laisney of the SSPX are among some of the SSPX priests who have repeated this misinformation. How can those saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire be an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus ?

This is the question brought to everyone’s attention by Daphne McLeod, Chairman, Pro Pontefice et Ecclesia, U.K.

Fr. Peter Scott has been expecting a reply from Bishop Boland (2). He wrote to Bishop Raymond Boland, the bishop of Kansas City in 2001 about Dominus Iesus in relation to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Bishop Boland cited magisterial documents which all affirmed the dogma as interpreted by the Church Councils, popes, saints, Vatican Council II, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Dominus Iesus, Pope Pius XII’s Letter of the Holy Office and Fr.Leonard Feeney.

Now Fr.Scott has been informed of this issue .These blog posts have been sent to him via the SSPX and also through a blog on which he answers questions. A clarification is needed from him and the SSPX.

The SSPX has been asked to clarify its doctrinal position on: can those saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire be an exception to the dogma?

He is asked to announce in public the doctrinal position of the SSPX with regard to this issue: are those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus?

The SSPX clarification could provide a reason for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican also to publically remove confusion on this simple issue before the SSPX is granted an Ordinate.

-Lionel Andrades
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Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Against the Heresies, p. 216:

“Evidently, certain distinctions must be made. Souls can be saved in a religion other than the Catholic religion (Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism, etc.), but not by this religion. There may be souls who, not knowing Our Lord, have by the grace of the good Lord, good interior dispositions, who submit to God...But some of these persons make an act of love which implicitly is equivalent to baptism of desire. It is uniquely by this means that they are able to be saved.”[Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Against the Heresies, Angelus Press, 1997, p. 216]

Bishop Lefebvre, Address given at Rennes, France: “If men are saved in Protestantism, Buddhism or Islam, they are saved by the Catholic Church, by the grace of Our Lord, by the prayers of those in the Church, by the blood of Our Lord as individuals, perhaps through the practice of their religion, perhaps of what they understand in their religion, but not by their religion…” [Quoted in Bro. Robert Mary, Fr. Feeney and the Truth About Salvation, p. 213]

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
KANSAS CITY DIOCESE AFFIRMS EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, THE CHURCH FATHERS,POPES, SAINTS AND FR.LEONARD FEENEY



SSPX ASSUMES ABP.LEFEBVRE REFERRED TO DE FACTO KNOWABLE BAPTISM OF DESIRE: CONFUSION STILL WIDESPREAD IN THEIR SEMINARIES


ARCHBISHOP MARCEL LEFEBVRE CALLED "TO PREACH" THE RIGORIST INTERPRETATION OF "EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS"