ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY PRIEST INDICATES THAT THE LETTER OF THE HOLY OFFICE MADE A MISTAKE

On the Internet forum True Catholic, Fr.John George indicates that the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 the magisterium, made a mistake. He does not deny this. If he denied it he would have to affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.It is easier for him to say that the Magisterium made a mistake by assuming that the baptism of desire was physically visible to us and so a known exception to every one needing to be a visible member of the church for salvation as the dogma teaches.

Fr:John George knows that physically we cannot see any one in 2013 and who is now in Heaven. So those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are not exceptions to the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney, who was not excommunicated for heresy.

The priest from the Archdiocese of Sydney says on True Catholic that the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 said that the baptism of desire was an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. This is false. The Letter does not explicitly say this one has to assume it wrongly.Fr.John has assumed that these cases are physically visible to us and so they are exceptions to every one needing to be visible members of the Catholic Church.

This elderly priest is suggesting that the Letter of the Holy Office made a factual error.It assumed that we can see the dead in Heaven physically.Invisible cases are assumed to be visible and so an exception to the infallible teaching.

Perhaps the Archbishop and priests in Sydney are also saying that the Letter of the Holy Office made an objective mistake when they criticize Fr.Leonard Feeney for not accepting the baptism of desire as an exception to the historical understanding of the dogma on exclusive salvation. -Lionel Andrades