According to Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) USA in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 of Pope Pius XII an objective, factual error was made. EWTN suggests that the Letter assumes being saved in invincible ignorance etc are known, visible exceptions to the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney on outside the Church there is no salvation.
So one like Leonard Feeney who interprets the teaching on the necessity of the Church his own way is not acting like a Catholic theologian at all. The Holy Office, on August 8, 1949, declared that L. Feeney was guilty of this error. Because of his error, he rejected several teachings of the Magisterium, saying they clashed with this definition - but they clash only with his false interpretation, given in private judgment.
Fr.Leonard Feeney was guilty of the error of not assuming that the baptism of desire cases were physically visible to him. He was guilty because he could not name any one saved with the baptism of desire. These cases are visible exceptions to the management of EWTN USA!
Then EWTN USA says that Pope Pius IX also made a factual error. Those 'who do not have the guilt of voluntary faith' and who were personally known to the pope and who are personally visible to the Management and apologists at EWTN, are exceptions to the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney! Wow! Lumen Gentium 16 also alleges that the dead now saved and who are in Heaven are personally visible for the people at EWTN USA to be exceptions.
Pius IX (Quanto conficiamur moerore, August 10, 1863) taught: "God... in His supreme goodness and clemency, by no means allows anyone to be punished with eternal punishments who does not have the guilt of voluntary fault." Vatican II (Lumen gentium # 16) taught the same: "They who without their own fault do not know of the Gospel of Christ and His Church, but yet seek God with sincere heart, and try, under the influence of grace, to carry out His will in practice, known to them through the dictate of conscience, can attain eternal salvation." Pius XII had said (Mystici Corporis Christi) that one can "be related to the Church by a certain desire and wish of which he is not aware", i.e., by the desire to do what God wills in general.
-from the EWTN USA website Apologetics Section. (Click on Catholic Church and then the Church and Salvation for this report by Fr.William Most)
http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/chura5.htm
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"They who without their own fault do not know of the Gospel of Christ and His Church, but yet seek God with sincere heart, and try, under the influence of grace, to carry out His will in practice, known to them through the dictate of conscience, can attain eternal salvation." Pius XII had said (Mystici Corporis Christi) that one can "be related to the Church by a certain desire and wish of which he is not aware", i.e., by the desire to do what God wills in general."
Critical words in the above quote are always and everywhere, "of which he is not aware"
It is always and everywhere the duty , teaching mission and necessity to teach that the Catholic Church is ABSOLUTELY necessary for Salvation so that a person/soul is 'aware ' of the fullness of truth and that we never presume salvation as some smorgasbords option outside the one, true Catholic Church.
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