The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has in the past been affirming the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus but at the same time would say invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are exceptions. This was the confusion in their doctrinal position.
So they were not in agreement with tradition (how can the dogma have explicit exceptions?) and neither were they in accord with Vatican Council II.
Now their communiqué has reaffirmed their faith in the Catholic Church and the dogma and also clarified that there is no‘… possibility to find the means leading to salvation’ outside the Church.
They are saying like Vatican Council II that all non Catholics need to enter the Church with Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation and there are no known exceptions (1) ; Lumen Gentium 16 and Lumen Gentium 8 are not explicit exceptions to the dogma on exclusive salvation and neither are they exceptions to Ad Gentes 7.
In the liberal version of Vatican Council II, which the SSPX rejects in the communiqué, LG 16 and LG 8 are considered explicit and known to us. Hence they presume that LG 16 and LG 8 contradict AG 7 and the dogma defined three times (2).
With the SSPX clarification the liberals cannot cite LG 16 or LG 8 as exceptions to the interpretation of the salvation dogma. They do not any more have citations from Vatican Council II.So there intrpretation is not one of continuity but a rupture.
The SSPX can cite AG 7 supporting their view of Vatican Council II and there are no exceptions in the Council texts.
There is only one interpretation of Vatican Council II with citations and it is the SSPX one. It has the hermeneutic of continuity-Lionel Andrades
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Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door.-Ad Gentes 7,Vatican Council II
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