Friday, February 3, 2012

DEPARTMENT OF MISSIOLOGY AT THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY TEACHES PROHBITED THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS : JESUIT DEAN REJECTS DOGMA AND MAGISTERIAL TEACHINGS

When Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J was a professor at the Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome his writings brought a Notification by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,Vatican. He was teaching a theology of religions.Now the theology of religions is being taught by the Dean of the Department of Missiology Fr.Thomas Casey S.J. It is announced proudly on the website of the university.

 It says ‘the theology of religions provides a deep and systematic study of other religions and cultures, while also enriching students with the wisdom of the Catholic tradition.’ What it does not say is that it teaches that other religions are also paths to salvation and their members do not have to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid Hell (for salvation).

Fr.Thomas Casey was formerly incharge of the controversial Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies and would not affirm magisterial teachings on exclusive salvation (CDF, Notification on Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J, Dominus Iesus etc), which state that Judaism is not a path to salvation and Jews need to convert into the Catholic Church (Letter of the Holy Office 1949 reference to ‘the dogma’, ‘the infallible’ teaching).He would not affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam null salus.

The theology of religious pluralism by Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J indicated that the members of other religions are saved in general in their religion  through Jesus and the Catholic Church.

For Jacques Dupuis, Karl Rahner,Joseph Ratzinger and other liberal theologians Lumen Gentium 16 indicates there could be non Catholics saved in invincible ignorance (LG 16) in general. The text of Lumen Gentium 16 does not say that it refers to in general salvation, that this is the ordinary way of salvation or that it contradicts the dogma.This did not stop the liberal theologians from assuming that it did refer to salvation in general.

These theologians have never discussed if Lumen Gentium 16 refers to:

1.Non Catholics saved in general in their religion or  are saved in ‘certain circumstances’.

2.These are not explicit,known cases so how could they be exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus or to other magisterial documents which say all need Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation.(Dominus Iesus 20, CCC 845, Vatican Council II AG 7,LG 14 etc).

Liberal theologians with the Jewish Left simply assume that there no more can be exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church after Vatican Council II. Their thology of religions however is based on fundamental errors.

1. Non Catholics cannot be saved in general in their religion since the ordinary means of salvation is Catholic Faith and the baptism of water (Vatican Council II, AG 7,LG 14).

2.The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 refers to those who can be saved ‘in certain circumstances’ i.e those with the baptism of desire and in invincible ignorance. So it is not the ordinary means of salvation.

Finally the most important point is never discussed.

3. We do not know any explicit case on earth of someone saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire.So they are not exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
 http://catholicism.org/category/outside-the-church-there-is-no-salvation

This was the error of the Jesuits at Boston College in the 1940’s and the same error is being repeated today by Fr.Thomas Casey and the other Jesuits at the Gregorian University.

Fr.Thomas Casey when he was with the Cardinal Bea
Centre coordinated programs with the Jewish Left speakers and universities.The leftist and Communist speakers include Anna Foa and Rabbi Lara and others who encourage anti Semitism laws in Italy which threathen the expression of Catholic religious beliefs. Dissenting students and faculty faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church could come under criminal charges.It can be difficult also for Jews for Jesus and other Messianic groups.

Many Catholic religious however reject these Talmudic concepts of the world, which are often evil and Satanic. Religious attend these courses in obedience to Superiors.Last year a course was held by the Department of Missiology with the focus on Mother Teresa.

Some of the Missionaries of Charity Sisters who attended the course were openly critical of what was being taught about other religions and Catholic mission.The sisters said that the Catholic Church was important for salvation and there was the need for mission to save souls. When the university professors said there could be non Catholics saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire the sisters replied that we do not know any one saved in invincibe ignorance and the baptism of desire.The good Sisters  were saying that there was an exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church.It seemed as if they were there at the university on Catholic mission.
The issue is still the Eucharist. How can Fr.Thomas Casey and the other Jesuits there deny in public a defined dogma, extra ecclesiam nulla salus, and still offer Holy Mass ?
According to Veritatis Splendor of Pope John Paul II, a mortal sin is a mortal sin and the outward action indicates the inner intention. Heresy is heresy. -Lionel Andrades

Photos from the website of the Gregorian Pontifical University,Rome.

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