Thursday, July 26, 2012

BISHOP RICHARD WILLIAMSON TRACES THE CRISIS OF THE CHURCH TO THE FIFTIES BUT DOES NOT MENTION THE FAULT LINE IN THE 1949 LETTER OF THE HOLY OFFICE


It was in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 that a misunderstanding arose it was institutionalised and then inserted in Vatican Council II by Cardinal Richard Cushing and the Jesuits.

In the video SSPX Archbishop Lefebvre and Rome 1 to 3 (1) Bishop Richard Williamson traces the origin of dissent in the Church.

He does not recognize that a major source of dissent and apostasy was the error of the visible baptism of desire being an exception to a defined dogma. This error was accepted by him and only this month in the SSPX communique (July 19) it has been rectified.

Cardinal Richard Cushing, the Archbishop of Boston and the Jesuit Superior placed restrictions on Fr.Leonard Feeney who held the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.(2)

In 1949 the confusion of the visible-to-us baptism of desire was official and later it would be included in Vatican Council II. Once this error is identified Vatican Council II becomes a traditional document with values held by Bishop Williamson and the SSPX.--Lionel Andrades




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On the 8th of August, 1949, Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, Secretary of the Holy Office, wrote to the Archbishop of Boston and sent him a Declaration of this Holy Office to be conveyed to Father Feeney, which made clear the sense in which one should understand the doctrine that "There is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church." Father Feeney refused to adhere to this declaration and wrote with regard to the matter that "it can be considered as having established a two-sided policy in order to propagate error."

On October 28, Father Feeney was expelled from the Jesuit Order.

Things remained unchanged until September 14, 1952. At this point, the Archbishop of Boston demanded that Father Feeney retract his false interpretation and make an "explicit profession of submission" to the Roman Declaration within one month or suffer the penalty of being reduced to the state of a layman.

Father Feeney, accompanied by four witnesses, presented himself before his Archbishop. He told him that his only option was to declare the letter of Marchetti-Selvaggiani "absolutely scandalous because it was frankly heretical." Then he asked His Excellency if he was in agreement with the views expressed by the Roman Declaration. He obtained the following response: "I am not a theologian. All that I know is what I am told." Then, in the presence of these witnesses, Father Feeney accused the Archbishop of failing to perform his duty, and left.

On September 24, 1952, a letter was sent from the St. Benedict Center to Pius XII, accusing the Archbishop of Boston of heresy.

In October of 1952, Cardinal Pizzardo summoned Father Feeney to present himself in Rome for a hearing by the Holy Office. Father Feeney -accepted on condition that they told him beforehand what the charges against him were. Not receiving any response, he did not comply.

On February 16, 1953, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis announced the excommunication of Father Leonard Feeney. The following is an official translation of the Decree:

"Since Father Leonard Feeney remained in Boston (St. Benedict Center) and since he has been suspended from performing his priestly duties for a long time because of his grave disobedience to the Authority of the Church, in no way moved by repeated warnings and threats of incurring excommunication ipso facto, and has still failed to submit, the most Eminent and Reverend Fathers, charged with the responsibility of safeguarding faith and morals, during a plenary session held on February 4, 1953, have declared him excommunicated with all the effects that this has in law.

"On Thursday, February 12, 1953, Our Most Holy Father Pius XII, Pope by Divine Providence, has approved and confirmed the decree of these Most Eminent Fathers, and ordered that this be made a matter of public record.

"Given in Rome in the general quarters of the Holy Office, February 13, 1953. Marius Crovini, notary."
The Case of Fr. Leonard Feeney
Excerpt from The Reign of Mary (winter 1992) http://www.the-pope.com/feeneyite.html

CARDINAL MULLER AND ARCHBISHOP DI NOIA WHO ASSUME THERE ARE KNOWN EXCEPTIONS TO THE DOGMA SHOULD BE ASKED TO NAME THESE PERSONS : VATICAN COUNCIL II INDICATES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS ' the only Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, outside of which there is no salvation and no possibility of finding the means that lead to it'


The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Vice President of Ecclesia Dei has asked the SSPX to accept Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. But they want the SSPX to accept these documents while assuming there are persons on earth who are saved in Heaven and who are also on earth.

So they want the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) to state  that we know people who are saved without the Sacraments and who are in Heaven (CCC1257) and these people are also on earth and so are an exception to the literal interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus which Pope Pius XII called 'the dogma' the 'infallible teaching'(Letter of the Holy Office 1949).

Who are these exceptions ? Can they name them for us?

How do they want the SSPX to accept Lumen Gentium 16 as being an explicit exception to 'the dogma' when they cannot tell us the names of the people they know on earth who are saved in invincible ignorance and a good conscience.

Reason tells us that there can also be an interpretation of Vatican Council II which does not assume that we know all the dead.

Since there are no known exceptions to the 'infallible teaching' in Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church the SSPX could accept these documents in harmony with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. This would be accepting Vatican Council II in accord with Tradition; the dogma.The real  issue is no more Vatican Council II which the SSPX accepts according to the dogma as indicated in their communique of July 19,2012.(1)

According to the SSPX version of Vatican Council II all non Catholics need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation (to avoid Hell) and there can only be an ecumenism of return.-Lionel Andrades

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This is why its seems to us opportune to reaffirm our faith in the Roman Catholic Church, the only Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, outside of which there is no salvation and no possibility of finding the means that lead to it; in its monarchical constitution, willed by Our Lord, which means that the supreme power of governance over the whole Church belongs to the pope alone, the Vicar of Christ on earth; in the universal kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the creator of the natural and supernatural order, to whom every human being and all society must submit. - SSPX Communique (emphasis added).