The Church Fathers at Vatican Council II knew

If the Council Fathers at Vatican Council II assumed invincible ignorance (LG 16) ,seeds of the Word(AG 11), imperfect communion with the Church(UR 3), 'good and holy ' non Catholics saved in their religion (NA) are exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and Tradition in general, they made an objective, factual mistake - then they would have  made a mistake in the text of Vatican Council II .

Cardinal Richard Cushing and the Jesuits, at Vatican Council, misinterpreted the Letter of the Holy Office 1949. They assumed that there were known exceptions to the dogma on salvation.

The  conservatives at Vatican Council II could have allowed the Cushing 'emphasis' on invincible ignorance etc ,  to pass through, since they are irrelevant to the dogma or tradition.They are known only to God.They are not objective exceptions. Implicit cases were never considered exceptions in Catholic Tradition.

 

The Council Fathers could have let Cardinal Richard Cushing and Fr. John Courtney Murray S.J have their way, knowing that implicit for us salvation was never an exception to  Tradition.All salvation mentioned in Vatican Council II is implicit. They also knew that Cushing and Murray were referring to teachings accepted in principle and not known in explicit cases. for them to be rejections of the dogma on salvation or the Syllabus of Errors.

-Lionel Andrades