Fra.Angelo has formed his thinking, like so many Catholics, through the secular (anti Catholic) media.The SSPX are not checkmated yet. They have a secure defence, a trump card. The ace is in their hand.They can put down the winning card when they want to.They fought well for Catholic doctrine.Now it is this very doctrine which comes to their aid.
If they stay with doctrine firmly it must come to a point when their opponent is checkmated and says “To Hell with doctrine. You just say and do what we tell you”. Presently those who oppose the SSPX are still pretending that Vatican Council II and Catholic doctrine matters and that it supports them. Catholics like Fra.Angelo have fallen for the ruse.
If the SSPX accepts this false Israel-approved version of Vatican Council II they have lost.They are checkmated and Fra.Angelo would be correct.They will also have disowned Jesus.
The SSPX bishops alone can decide when and how they will play their trump card.They could accept Vatican Council II and later explain their interpretation, for example in Bishop Fellay’s case; once things have settled down he can explain his interpretation of Vatican Council II.
Or they could announce their version of Vatican Council II and let everybody else respond, in favour or against, in panic or calm.The three other bishops could use this approach. They could ask, ‘ Are you all saying that those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are known to us in the present time? Please clarify this for us’.
If Lumen Gentium 16 (LG 16) on invincible ignorance and a good conscience does not contradict Ad Gentes 7 (AG 7) and if AG 7 does not contradict itself, then we can accept a Vatican Council II, a different one, but which is in agreement with the SSPX traditional position on ecumenism,Judaism and other religions.
This is the trump card.
No one in any camp knows who is saved in Heaven (invincible ignorance, seeds of the Word, baptism of desire etc). So Vatican Council II (AG 7) really says Jews and other non Catholics need to convert for salvation and there are no known exceptions mentioned in Vatican Council II.No one in the SSPX should have a problem with this interpretation.They can affirm the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus along with Vatican Council II (AG 7) with no known exceptions.
With invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire understood to be irrelevant to the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus ,and Vatican Council II (AG 7) ), Catholic traditionalists are united- SSPX members and supporters of Fr. Leonard Feeney.
I would not be surprised if Bishop Bernard Fellay accepts Vatican Council II and after a month clarifies this point.
So the SSPX is not checkmated. They have the option of accepting Vatican Council II (AG 7) alongwith their present position on ecumenism and other religions.
This would not be the Vatican Council of the rabbi at the Angelicum University, Rome to whom Catholic seminarians are exposed like a wolf among the sheep.Neither would it be the Vatican Council of Cardinal Kurt Koch and Cardinal Luiz Ladaria S.J who assume that those saved in Heaven( in invincible ignorance etc) are known to us. The cardinals,and the rabbi, cannot also cite any supporting reference text from Vatican Council II.
It's still the SSPX move. In Chess one can also go into an attack mode while defending. They call it the Sicilian gambit.
-Lionel Andrades
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