Friday, January 25, 2013

Bishop Frederick Henry does not deny heresy charge

I have sent the last blog post (1) to the bishop of Calgary,Canada as I had also done with the previous one(2).I do not expect a response.Perhaps for the first time someone has pointed out to the bishop that there is no explicit-for-us baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance.So when Bishop Frederick Henry, the bishop of Calgary denies the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus with allegedly being able to see the dead who are saved , it would be an innocent mistake.Something unintentional because it was unknown.


So we cannot expect him to say that there are exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and to Ad Gentes 7 because ' we can see the dead saved on earth' or ' the dead are visible'.


It would be irrational.If he corrects this error it would mean Vatican Council II is not a break with the past; the dogma on salvation and the Syllabus of Errors.


It would also mean he is in agreement with the position of Fr.Leonard Feeney and not that of the Archbishop of Boston Richard Cushing.It would also mean that he holds the same position on other religions and ecumenism, as the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) members at the St.Dennis Catholic Church,Calgary.


According to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, defined three times, Protestants and Orthodox Christians need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation.This is also indicated by Vatican Council II(AG 7).So this would be Bishop Henry's position on ecumenism.


There is no contradiction between Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441,Vatican Council II (AG 7) and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (846).

At issue is the Eucharist.Bishop Henry offers Holy Mass while he rejects the dogma on salvation,suggests Vatican Council II and the Catechism contradict Magisterial documents of the past and he assumes that there is not one known baptism for the forgiveness of sins (Nicene Creed) but three or more known baptisms (baptism of desire,invincible ignorance etc).

If a lay man would deny these teachings in public he would have to go for Confession, affirm the faith in public and then receive the Eucharist at Mass. May be not in Bishop Henry's diocese, whose website promotes the National Catholic Reporter , whose Catholic staff members deny most Church teachings .

When I use the word heresy here I am not using it in a pejorative sense or in any manner reflecting on the bishops personality or character. I am referring to the Catechism of the Catholic Church mentioning heresy and the need to believe in certain teachings of the Catholic Church which is obligatory for all.
2089 Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it. "Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him."-Catechism of the Catholic Church
-Lionel Andrades

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BISHOP FREDERICK HENRY AND THE SSPX INTERPRET VATICAN COUNCIL II AS BREAK WITH THE PAST : THEY ASSUME THE DEAD ARE VISIBLE AS DID THE ARCHBISHOP OF BOSTON RICHARD CUSHING
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2013/01/bishop-frederick-henry-and-sspx.html#links

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BISHOP FREDERICK HENRY AND THE SSPX INTERPRET VATICAN COUNCIL II AS BREAK WITH THE PAST : THEY ASSUME THE DEAD ARE VISIBLE AS DID THE ARCHBISHOP OF BOSTON RICHARD CUSHING
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2013/01/bishop-fredrick-henry-of-calgarycanada.html#links

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