FEENEYISM IS IN ACCORD WITH MAGISTERIAL DOCUMENTS

There are Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) websites which refer to ‘Feeneyism’. This is a major doctrinal error of the SSPX and influences their understanding on Vatican Council II.

They are rejecting the literal, traditional understanding of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and are assuming that the baptism of desire is not only known in principle but also in fact, in reality. This is a factual error of the SSPX bishops who suggest that we know non Catholics in Heaven or on earth, saved with the baptism of desire. In fact no one of us knows these cases.

Like Wikipedia, the SSPX on its websites call knowing the dead; those saved in Heaven, as exceptions to the dogma which support. This seems a contradiction. The dogma says there is exclusive salvation in only the Catholic Church and everyone needs to be a member and they claim the baptism of desire is known and so is an explicit exception to the dogma.

Fr. Leonard Feeney was affirming the centuries-old teaching as it was known by the Church Fathers, Church Councils, the saints, Vatican Council I and II and all the Catechisms of the Catholic Church.

Feeneyism which affirms the literal interpretation of the dogma and accepts in principle implicit  baptism of desire, with no known explicit implicit desire/ baptism of desire, is in accord with the Magisterium of the Church.(Dominus Iesus 20, Catechism of the Catholic Church 845,846,Vatican Council II (AG 7), Ecclesia di Eucarestia, Redemptoris Missio 55 etc)

It is the SSPX which is in heresy for assuming there are known exceptions to the dogma and then being unable to name any such person on earth.-Lionel Andrades