Thursday, December 22, 2011

ROME VICARIATE HIT BY THE RICHARD CUSHING ERROR : Centro Della pastorale sanitaria says the baptism of water is not defacto needed for the salvation of all on earth

The Rome Vicariate centre for the pastoral care of the sick has issued a booklet in which the Catholic teaching on the necessity of baptism  suffers from the Richard Cushing Error. It is the error of assuming that those saved with the baptism of desire etc are explicitly known to us and so are an exception to the dogma outside the church there is no salvation.

To accommodate the Cushing Error, on page 8 of the booklet ‘I sacramenti dell’ iniziazione cristiana’ does not say that baptism is needed for all. Instead it says it is necessary for those who have had the Gospel preached to them and who have the means to ask for the Sacrament of baptism. (1)

The booklet issued by the Centro Della pastorale sanitaria Della Diocesi di Roma says that a person can be saved without the baptism of water through the baptism of desire or the baptism of blood (martyrdom).(2) A copy of the text in the booklet is also available on the website of the Vicariato, Rome. The Centre is under  Auxiliary Bishop Armando Brambilla, Titular Bishop of Giomnio (tel. ab. 06-69.88.65.13 tel. uff. 06-69.88.62.27 )

The bishops teaching is contrary to the dogma Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441, which says one needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. It also contradicts Vatican Council II which says Catholic Faith with the baptism of water is needed for all with no exceptions. All people need to enter the Church (AG 7, LG 14) all need to enter as ‘through a door’ (CCC 846)

The Vicariate instead indicates that all people on earth defacto do not need to enter the Church but only those who have had the Gospel preached to them and who have the means to ask for the Sacrament. The Vicariate assumes that there could be de facto known cases on earth, of non Catholics, saved in invincible ignorance. So it says only those who have had the Gospel preached to them. The Vicariate assumes that the baptism of desire is visible and known to us in particular cases, so it says only those who have the means as opposed to those who are saved by precept (desire).

It was the Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing who postulated that the baptism of desire and invincible ignorance were defacto exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the traditional interpretation of Fr. Leonard Feeney. This priest like the popes and saints and the dogma itself, taught that every one needs to be a visible member of the church for salvation (to avoid Hell). The dogma does not mention any exceptions and Fr.Leonard Feeney accepted the baptism of desire per se but did not think it could be an exception to the dogma. Neither did he think it was an exception to the baptism of water and taught that those who had a genuine desire, and perfect charity would receive the baptism of water with God's grace.These cases would be known only to God.

Due to the Richard Cushing error of assuming that those saved with the baptism of desire and in invincible ignorance are explicitly known to us the Vicariate in Rome (n.261) also assumes that they are de facto exceptions to the dogma. So it says only those who have had the Gospel preached to them (they know and are not in invincible ignorance) and those who have the means to ask which includes every body except for those saved with the baptism of desire (precept).

Then it asks the rhetorical question, Can one be saved without the baptism (of water)? (n.262)
The Centre  replies because Christ has died for all, salvation is open to all, even for those who have died without the baptism of water but with the baptism of blood and desire.  We know that de facto there is only one baptism and not three. The baptism of blood and desire are known explicitly only to God, only he can judge. We can administer the baptism of water only.

Dominus Iesus 20 says even though Jesus has died for all, all people need to enter the Church for salvation. The Vicariate instead says all do not need to enter the Church through the baptism of water given to adults with the Catholic Faith. It mixes up the defacto-dejure reasoning which is there in magisterial texts.It assumes wrongly that those saved with the baptism of desire and blood are de facto known to us.

De facto every one needs to enter the Church for salvation. Dejure there could be non Catholics saved with the baptism of desire etc and they would be known only to God. Since they are hypothetical cases, explicit for God only and we do not know a single case in the present time, it does not contradict the ancient teaching that every one with no exception on earth, defacto needs the baptism of water and Catholic Faith for salvation.
-Lionel Andrades
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(1)

261. E necessario il Battesimo per la salvezza?
II Battesimo è necessario alla salvezza per coloro ai quali è stato annunziato il Vangelo e che hanno la
possibilità di chiedere questo Sacramento.

(2)

262. Si può essere salvati senza Battesimo?

Poiché Cristo è morto per la salvezza di tutti, possono essere salvati anche senza Battesimo quanti
muoiono a causa della fede (Battesimo di sangue), i catecumeni, e anche tutti coloro che sotto l’impulso
della grazia, senza conoscere Cristo e la Chiesa, cercano sinceramente Dio e si sforzano di compiere la
sua volontà (Battesimo di desiderio). Quanto ai bambini morti senza Battesimo, la Chiesa nella sua liturgia
li affida alla misericordia di Dio.


BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE WEBSITE SAYS NOSTRA AETATE DISMISSES CHURCH INTEREST IN BAPTIZING JEWS AND AFFIRMS GOD’S COVENANT WITH THEM : NOWHERE DOES VATICAN COUNCIL II MAKE THIS CLAIM

PRO ABORTION SIDIC WHICH HAD TO LEAVE THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY REVIVED

The Archdiocese of Boston on its website has posted a report which states  Nostra Aetate, Section Four 'reaffirms the eternal covenant between God and the people of Israel', and 'dismisses church interest in trying to baptize Jews’. The website's Ecumenical and Interreligious Affiars section  has also posted the text of Nostra Aetate in which Section Four does NOT reaffirm the eternal covenant between God and the people of Israel and does not ‘dismiss church interest in trying to baptize Jews’. Instead Nostra Aetate mentions the Catholic Church as the ‘true and new people of God’.

The report ‘Nostra Aetate : What is it?’ says Vatican Council II ‘ made historic changes to church policies and theology’ and Nostra Aetate ‘revolutionized the Catholic Church's approach to Jews and Judaism’. Yet nowhere does Nostra Aetate contradict Ad Gentes 7 or Lumen Gentium 14 which indicates all, including Jews, need to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid eternal death. Vatican Council II (LG 14, AG 7) affirms the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing which mentions ‘the dogma, the ‘infallible statement’. The dogma clearly says all Jews need to convert for salvation. ( Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441).This was also the teaching of Fr. Leonard Feeney who was persecuted and insulted by the Jews in Boston because of his traditional Catholic faith.

The Boston Catholic Archdiocese website features SIDIC, a leftist pro abortion organisation, who were asked to leave the Pontifical Gregorian University Rome.
-Lionel Andrades