The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) needs to explain to its 500 plus priests the import of its July 19 communiqué and not issue admonitions and disrupt unity amid the present confusion.
Fr. Chazal and the other priests are still under the view that Vatican Council II contradicts the Syllabus of Errors and other magisterial documents including the defined dogmas on salvation.
The SSPX has to show its priests how this is not true.
Firstly the last communiqué needs to be understood in which the SSPX affirmed that there was no salvation outside the Church and there were no exceptions. This is the position of Fr. Leonard Feeney which was opposed by Fr. Peter Scott, Fr. Francois Laisney and even Bishop Richard Williamson.
Secondly it has to be brought to their attention that we do not know any case of a non Catholic saved with the baptism of desire or in invincible ignorance and so there are no explicit exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
So when the Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing assumed that there were exceptions to the dogma it was heresy. The dogma does not mention any exceptions. So it was not Fr. Leonard Feeney but the Archbishop and the Jesuits of Boston who were in heresy.
Since the baptism of desire, invincible ignorance, and being saved with a good conscience are not exceptions to the dogma there is nothing in Vatican Council II which contradicts the literal interpretation of the dogma or the Syllabus of Errors.
This has to be explained to the SSPX priests.
Then they can understand that contrary to what they were taught before Vatican Council II affirms the traditional teaching on ecclesiology, ecumenism, other religions and religious liberty.
Until this is explained to the priests they will assume that the SSPX is compromising with Satan. Since if the Archbishop of Boston is not in heresy for the SSPX then Vatican Council II really is a modernist Council.
However if it is realized that there are no cases known of the visible dead ( saved in invincible ignorance etc) then Vatican Council II is a traditional Council with values as those of Fr. Chazal and the other priests of the community. This is a time for extra patience from the SSPX administration because of the normal confusion that exists all over.-Lionel Andrades
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Lionel said:
" Since the baptism of desire, invincible ignorance, and being saved with a good conscience are not exceptions to the dogma there is nothing in Vatican Council II which contradicts the literal interpretation of the dogma or the Syllabus of Errors.
This has to be explained to the SSPX priests.
Then they can understand that contrary to what they were taught before Vatican Council II affirms the traditional teaching on ecclesiology, ecumenism, other religions and religious liberty."
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Very true, any when and only when this is clarified, accepted , taught and most importantly understood can we begin to emerge from the Crisis of Faith. Admit the errors and move on with the help of the Holy Ghost.
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