The ambiguity in Vatican Council II comes from the error in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949.
Since the baptism of the desire etc was supposed to be an exception to the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus Vatican Council II would say only those who know (LG 14)need to enter the Church and not all people since it would be presumed that there were some people known on earth in invincible ignorance etc.Cardinal Richard Cushing , the Archbishop of Boston and the Jesuits in Boston were active at Vatican Council.
Before Vatican Council II and the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 no Church-document implied that invincible ignorance was an exception to the dogma.LG 14 does this. That line was allowed to pass by all at the Council since of course, only Jesus can and will judge those who are invincible ignorance and those who know about Jesus and the Church and yet do not convert. So there is no controversy here.The Archbishop and the Jesuits could only create confusion. The Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) has picked up the confusion and so says Vatican Council II is a modernist Council.
The fault is with the dead-but -visible- to- us view.If the correction is made mentally, the correct interpretation is chosen, without the visible-dead theory, the Council is no more modernist. It becomes a traditional Council.The ambiguity ends.
When one identifies the error in the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston 1949 one can trace the fault lines throughout Vatican Council II and correct it.-Lionel Andrades
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http://magisterialfundies.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-question-concerning-salvation.html
After Vatican II, centuries of fire and zeal for conversion were first removed from the teaching mission and then removed from the rear burner and eventually all but eliminated from practice. It was as if we presumed many if not all non Catholics to be sincere and thus explicitly saved or beyond the necessity for us to pray and work towards their conversion as the charge and mission from Jesus. And so we have endured this very tragedy for decades. Most and perhaps nearly all Catholics have failed to own up to and above all correct the root cause which is watered down , luke warm Cathechisis . It is time to repair this severe wound !
Rick,
I agree with you!
Lionel
Rick DeLano said:
" My answer is that this man is not saved, absent some supernatural intervention by God, concerning which we could never have any evidence at all, ever, this side of eternity."
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I agree. It is really this simple. God and God alone would know all the intricacies of this mans goodness or lack thereof and thus Baptism of Desire is a possibility completely unknown to us on earth. So we must teach the Catholic Faith with the explicit truths for Salvation.
JMJ,
George Brenner
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