CARDINAL MALCOLM RANJIT AND THE SYLLABUS OF ERRORS

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjit believes that the Syllabus of Errors no more applies today.Perhaps  because those saved in invincible ignorance and with implicit desire are known exceptions. Vatican Council II though does not state that they are known exceptions.One has to assume it.

Vatican Council II (LG 16) just mentions invincible ignorance and being saved with a good conscience. Just mentions it! That’s all! It does no imply, assume, insinuate, suggest or claim that these are exceptions to the dogma on salvation or the Syllabus of Errors.

Since Cardinal Ranjit would make this assumption, personally, he could write off the Syllabus of Errors which was a surprise for me when I first heard him mention this.

It’s irrational for him to support the Syllabus of Errors since he ‘knows’ , that Fr.Leonard Feeney did not accept the baptism of desire as an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The Cardinal Archbishop of Boston and the Holy Office ‘knew’ that the baptism of desire was a known exception to the literal interpretation of the dogma.

So now  Cardinal Ranjit knows, that the Syllabus of Errors is no more valid for our time since the Letter of the Holy Office 1949, Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church suggest (?) that there are known explicit, exceptions to the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church. They do not!

Of course we can see the error in all this but who is going to inform the Sri Lankan cardinal and also the others who will participate in the conference on the Sacred Liturgy to be held in Rome in  2013.

I remember Cardinal Ranjit would visit the Maria Mater Ecclesia seminary in Rome where three seminarians whom he knew were studying to become priests. Two of them are probably now priests .At the Maria Mater Ecclesia seminary they would say Fr.Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for denying the baptism of desire. For the Rector and seminarians there, at this Legionary of Christ seminary in Rome, the baptism of desire was a known exception to the dogma on salvation. I know, I was a seminarian there at that time.

Similarly at the Beda Pontifical College Rome they also taught that the baptism of desire was a known exception to the dogma, when I would affirm the literal interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus. I didn’t last for more than a month in either seminary.

For the cardinal to claim innocently that the baptism of desire is a known exception is irrationality. It’s not his fault in the sense that many in the church would say the same. Perhaps also Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at that time. That it is heresy also they may not know.

However it would be said that after being informed they offer Mass without any public clarification.-Lionel Andrades