The traditionalists at the St.Benedict Centers,USA could come to the assistance of the SSPX

At the centre of the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) rejecting Vatican Council II is the controversy over Fr.Leonard Feeney.

The SSPX and the St.Benedict Centers clashed because both assumed that the baptism of desire and invincible ignorance were explicit ,visible and known to us in the present times in specific cases.So the SSPX accepted the baptism of desire etc as an exception to the dogma while the St.Benedict Center, did not consider it an exception.In this sense they rejected it.They rejected defacto, known baptism of desire but accepted it in principle, they even provided a definition of it.

The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the St.Benedict Centers are also traditionalists like the SSPX.

They reject the parts of Vatican Council II which they believe clash with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. However in general, in principle they say that they accept Vatican Council II.They choose to leave the controversial parts as un-addressed.

But if there are no known exceptions to the dogma, since the baptism of desire and invincible ignorance etc are just hypotehtical for us,then the Council does not clash with extra ecclesiam nulla salus.There would be nothing in Vatican Council II which contradicts the SSPX and the St.Benedict Center traditional  position on other religions and ecumenism.

So the Prior of the St.Benedict Center,Richmond,N.H for example, would not be able to cite any text in Vatican Council II which would contradict extra ecclesiam nulla salus as interpreted by Fr.Leonard Feeney.

If one of the St.Benedict Centers issues a statement saying that Vatican Council II does not contradict extra ecclesiam nulla salus, it could be an insight for all Catholics, especially the SSPX.-Lionel Andrades

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