Yesterday a meeting was held at the Vatican. Cardinal William Levada and Cardinal Luiz Ladaria met with Bishop Bernard Fellay. Ecclesia Dei was also represented.
The cardinals had earlier also met a delegation of sisters to whom they have issued a Notification. The Vatican side told them, according to reports, that fundamental teachings of the Church cannot be changed.
It is a fundamental teaching of the Church that there is exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church.
Yet the two cardinals have approved, along with the pope, two theological papers of the International Theological Commission which indicates that there is a visible baptism of desire and invincible ignorance, which are explicit exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, Vatican Council II (AG 7, LG 14), the Nicene Creed (“I believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sin”) and other magisterial texts like Dominus Iesus 20.
The cardinals are under the impression that Catholics believe that there are known cases on earth and heaven who have been saved with a good conscience (LG 16) etc. Hence there is no more exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church.
They represent the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) who will meet personally the three bishops of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX).
The CDF cardinals were silent when the pope and Cardinals Bertone, Bagnasco and Kaspar told the Chief Rabbinate of Israel that Jews do not have to convert in the present times. This is contrary to the Bible and the Creed.
The cardinals are going to meet the three bishops and also talk about Catholic doctrine.
On May 13 Cardinal Kurt Koch said that Jews do not have to accept the New Covenant for salvation and they do not have to convert. There is no mission to them.
The three bishops will have to accept all this to enter the Catholic Church with canonical status.-Lionel Andrades
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