Saturday, January 19, 2013

The Baptism of Desire is a possibility and not an exception


It is always a possibility and never an exception.It is accepted always in principle and can never be known defacto; in real life.

So it could never have been an exception to Fr.leonard Feeney's literal interpretation of the dogma on outside the church there is no salvation.


The Church accepts the baptism of desire but never says it is explicit.No Church document makes this claim.


Only the International Theological Commission(ITC) makes this claim.The ITC documents are non binding. They are not magisterial documents.The ITC makes the error of assuming that the implicit-to-us salvation is visible and so an exception to Fr.Leonard Feeney.It cites present day theologians, who make the same factual error.The ITC claims that the Magisterium has 'a more nuanced' understanding of this issue today yet the ITC is not able to quote  any Magisterial text which supports their claim.


Neither does Pope Pius XII nor the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston state that these cases of always- implicit-to-us salvation are explicit for us.Neither is it said that these cases are explicit exceptions to Fr.Leonard Feeney and the St.Benedict Center's literal understanding of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.If the Letter did make this claim it would be an objective mistake.Since we cannot see the dead saved who are exceptions to the dogma. The dead are not visible physically.There is no dead man walking saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire.These are errors in the collected papers of the ITC book Documenti.It was approved by the last Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.It was also approved by Pope Benedict XVI.
The misunderstanding arose because they did not realize that the baptism of desire can only be a possibility and not an exception.It's an exception to nothing.As John Martigioni says, zero cases of something are not exceptions.

Every religious community in the Catholic Church can hold the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus along with accepted in principle only baptism of desire.It cannot be accepted as a known reality since we do not know any case.If something does not exist it cannot be an exception.-Lionel Andrades

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