Fr.Francois Laisney makes the same error as Archbishop Di Noia in assuming that there are explicit known cases on earth who can be saved outside the Catholic Church.

So if someone who looks to be a Lutheran outside is saved, it is because he is a Catholic inside; it is in spite of the Lutheran church, not by it that he is saved,writes Fr.Francois Laisney.

How can any Lutheran one knows, be saved ? In principle a Lutheran can be saved and it would be known to God only. In reality every Lutheran needs to enter the Catholic Church for salvation. This is the ordinary means of salvation (AG 7). This is the teaching of Vatican Council II.

There is no particular Lutheran whom we can say will be saved.Firstly we cannot judge secondly Vatican Council II says all need Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation. The Lutheran does not have Catholic Faith.

The dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus says all need to convert and there are no (known) exceptions.

This was the error in the book written by Fr.Francois Laisney on this subject.

It is because of this error that he interprets Vatican Council II as a break from the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the Syllabus of Errors.

Once it is known that the Council does not contradict the SSPX position on other religions it will be easier to understand how the Council also accepts the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) position on ecumenism and religious liberty.

Fr.Francois Laisney makes the same error as Archbishop Di Noia in assuming that there are explicit known cases on earth who can be saved outside the Catholic Church.

-Lionel Andrades

http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2012-1015-laisney-di-noia.htm