CATHOLIC CULTURE ASSUMES CASES OF INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE SAVED IN HEAVEN ARE VISIBLE TO US AND SO ARE EXCEPTIONS TO FR.LEONARD FEENEY

In the standard theology textbooks used in all the seminaries at the end of the 19th century and throughout the first half of the 20th, in Tanquerey's Moral Theology, for instance, you will commonly see a sentence from one address Pius IX gave to some bishops, in which Pius IX declared that he — and the Catholic bishops in general — perfectly well knew that it is not a sin for persons to remain outside the Church if they are invincibly ignorant of the true religion — don't know it and without any guilty negligence on their part really can't find out about it. 

And, furthermore, though he does not use this odd modern word, of course, psychological factors matter — some things are impossible because they are morally impossible, humanly impossible, psychologically impossible. He said that in view of the indescribable real complexity and mysteriousness of the many factors that might limit a person's ability to understand the claims of the Church, there is no way as a rule to know who is or is not invincibly ignorant.

The Leonard Feeney Quarrel and Pius IX on Invincible Ignorance

by Farley Clinton

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=2650

it is not a sin for persons to remain outside the Church if they are invincibly ignorant of the true religion — don't know it and without any guilty negligence on their part really can't find out about it.

Lionel: 

Yes it is not a sin and we do not know personally any such case. The popes have also not said that we can physically see such cases. The writer and Jeff Mirus of Catholic Culture assumes that these cases are visible to us and so they presume they are known exceptions to Fr.Leonard Feeney.

there is no way as a rule to know who is or is not invincibly ignorant.

Lionel:

Precisely we cannot know who will be saved in invincible ignorance and Vatican Council II (AG 7) says all need faith and baptism for salvation. Redemptoris Missio 55 says the Church is the ordinary way of salvation (not  being saved in another religion or in invincible ignorance).

So there is no case against Fr.Leonard Feeney-period!

-Lionel Andrades