Monday, January 16, 2012

TO CLAIM THAT LUMEN GENTIUM 16 IS A DEFACTO EXCEPTION TO THE DOGMA OUTSIDE THE CHURCH THERE IS NO SALVATION IS HERESY AND ALSO IRRATIONAL

A website claims that I have said 'Pope Benedict XVI is a HERETIC and is EXCOMMUNICATED!'
They quote me:(1)
This is false. See more info here. http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2012/01/cushingism-is-heresy-charity-demands.html

In the case of the writer of the post, Ed., I said it was heresy since he knows that Lumen Gentium 16 is not an exception to the dogma. he had been informed and yet as a Catholic he is not affirming a Church teaching. He implies that there are defacto exceptions to the dogma.

Regarding the pope and his Curia we do not know if they are aware of Cushingism. We do not know if the pope knows that there is no defacto- known case of the baptism of desire. Unknowingly he could be making the same error as many Catholics.

So charity demands we give the pope the benefit of the doubt until someone asks him a direct question.

Recently the pope said the Church is Mission. If he sees the need for Mission he could believe as in the past as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that non Catholic religions are not paths to salvation. He could also be affirming the dogma outside the church there is no salvation.

So if there is a direct denial of the Faith by the pope only then what I have mentioned above is true.

The pope has said in one of his recent books that what he is was writing there is not infallible and he is open to correction.

What I have mentioned are just general principles of the Catholic Church applied to all Catholics. So it cannot be said that I am calling the pope a heretic who is automatically excommunicated. Let us give him and his Curia the benefit of the doubt.
-Lionel Andrades

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"Pope Benedict XVI and some of his Curia have stated in the public media that Jews do not have to convert in the present times. This is a rejection of Vatican Council II (LG 14, AG 7) which indicates Catholic Faith and the baptism of water is the ordinary means of salvation (to avoid Hell).
"Lumen Gentium 16 (invincible ignorance, good conscience) is not the ordinary way of salvation and neither do we know of any case of a non Catholic saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire.
"Pope Benedict also rejects an ex cathedra dogma, defined three times by three Church Councils, on extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
"As Cardinal Ratzinger, along with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, he excommunicated Fr. Tissa Balasuriya OMI for denying an ex cathedra dogma.
"Pope Benedict rejects Vatican Council II (AG 7, LG14) and Cantate Domino, Council of Florence and is automatically excommunicated according to the teaching of the Church for centuries, including the pontificate of Pope John Paul II.
"The pope is not to offer Mass until he receives absolution in the Confessional and makes public amends, removes the scandal.
"Pope Benedict is my pope. When I commit a sin I go for Confession. I assume the Holy Father does the same."-Lionel Andrades