AMERIO CALLED FOR AN EX CATHEDRA STATEMENT : BIRSOTTI, RADAELLO AND THE SSPX HAVE NOT NOTICED THAT THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE

Manfred on Saturday, Feb 9, 2013 9:16 PM (EST):The question does not turn on the obedience of the SSPX to the Pope; but rather the obedience of the Pope (and the Church) to dogma! The entire Council is suspect.

See the articles by Birsotti and Radaello and Iota Unum by Romano Amerio) (Comment)

 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/archbishops-personal-advice-to-sspx/#ixzz2Klls4Z2O

Romano Amerio author of Iota Unum is quoted as saying that the pope should issue an ex cathedra statement saying that there are no exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. He writes that being saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are not part of the Catholic Tradition.

There have been articles by Birsotti and Radaello recently and they are being commented upon by bloggers. The SSPX USA website has also taken notice of it. So has Fr.Z.

Romano Amerio understood that the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus could not be rejected in the name of Vatican Council II. However the issue has been made so complicated that traditionalists including Amerio, Birsotte and Radaello did not realize that the solution was simple. There is no visible-to-us salvation mentioned in Vatican Council II or the Letter of the Holy Office 1949. It is only because the traditionalits assume that salvation indicated in Vatican Council II is explicit and so contradicting the dogma on salvation, that Vatican Council II emerges modernist and a break with the past.

Recently Archbshop Gerhard Muller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that those who interpret the Council, as a break with the past are heretical. The SSPX criticized this statement on their U.S website. Since, for the SSPX those saved in invincible ignorance etc, mentioned in Vatican Council II and the Letter of the Holy Office 1949, is physically visible,it is explicit,they can see the dead saved in invincible ignroance and implicit desire.This is ridiculous ? Obviously if you add a false premise(visible dead saved) to any Church document it will emerge modernist.

So the pope does not need to issue an ex cathedra statement on this subject. He or the traditionalists just have to mention that there is no visible baptism of desire etc.Then automatically others would realize, like Archbishop Muller, that it is heretical to interpret Vatican Council II as a break with the past, and this applies to the progressivists and  traditionalists.The Council is traditional.The entire interpretation of the Council changes.-Lionel Andrades