They excommunicated Archbishop Lefebvre unaware of the Richard Cushing Error:Excommunication N.2 will also imply that implicit salvation is always explicit for us.

There is political pressure on the pope to excommunicate the Society of St.Pius X(SSPX) unless they approve an interpretation of Vatican Council II which says there is salvation outside the church and these cases are exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.It other words these cases are visible and known to us, it is implied, for them to be exceptions.

The Vatican is likely to go ahead with Excommunication N.2 as they did with the first one unaware of the premise they use in Vatican Council II : of the dead being visible to us on earth. No text in Vatican Council II makes this claim.The premise is implied and generally accepted by the magisterium.

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre knew that the interpretation of Vatican Council II was modernist but he did not trace its source in the wrong premise.So he could only criticize the Council and not present an alternative.

Today when we celebrate the anniversary of Vatican Council II we are unaware of the Cardinal Richard Error of being able to see the dead saved, which permeates the Council.Without this premise the Council is traditional and in agreement with extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

Since the SSPX has to accept the false premise to gain canonical status they are being asked to claim that they can see the dead saved with 'the seeds of the word.' They can meet cases on earth saved in 'invincible ignorance' or 'a good conscience'. There are those who can be known personally.They are saved in 'imperfect communion' with the Catholic Church. All exceptions to the traditional dogma on salvation.

If they do not adopt the Richard Cushing error in their interpretation of Vatican Council as the traditionalists who offer the Latin Mass in Rome, they could be declared schismatic.-Lionel Andrades