Friday, August 10, 2012

DID CARDINAL RATZINGER ASSUME THAT THOSE SAVED IN INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE ARE KNOWN TO US SO THE CATECHISM SAYS GOD IS NOT LIMITED TO THE SACRAMENTS?

Probably since Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger assumed that we know people saved in invincible ignorance he wrote God is not limited to the Sacraments.

In general God is 'limited' to the Sacraments. This is the teaching of Vatican Council II (AG 7), extra ecclesiam nulla salus and Syllabus of Errors.


God will judge according to the law he has proscribed. For example do not kill is the norm. Those who murder are on the way to Hell. An exception is not the norm. Everyone will be judged according to the norm and not the exception.


Catholic Faith with the baptism of water is the norm to avoid Hell. Those who are saved without the Sacraments are not the norm. It is not known to us if there is a single case this year or over the last 10 years of someone saved without the Sacraments.


Anyway those who are saved without the Sacraments are unknown to us so it does not contradict the traditional teaching on this subject - all need to convert into the Church to go to Heaven.


So in general God is ‘limited’ to the Sacraments as He has chosen to limit himself, exceptionally God may not be limited to the Sacraments, God being God.


Our Faith  is simple. The complications were brought in, in Boston in the 1940’s and an injustice was done to Fr. Leonard Feeney. Cardinal Ratzinger came much later as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and could have been just trying to adapt in the best way he could.The Society of St.Pius X  must realize that their problems began in Boston long before Vatican Council II. Once they realize that Cardinal Richard Cushing, the Archbishop of Boston did not know any one saved in invincible ignorance or with implicit desire they will know that there are no exceptions to the Syllabus or Errors or the dogma on salvation.-Lionel Andrades

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