If the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) District USA admits that the official position of the Catholic Church is (1) that of Fr.Leonard Feeney they could have to pay big fines.Or so they fear!.Magisterial documents including Vatican Council II support the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney in which the baptism of desire is not an exception to his traditional interpretation of the salvation dogma.
If the SSPX (USA) admits this, that baptism of desire cases are known only to God and so are irrelevant to the traditional understanding of extra ecclesiam nulla salus, they would be saying that all Jews and Muslims in 2013 need to convert into the Church to go to to Heaven and avoid Hell and there are no exceptions mentioned in any magisterial text.(Being saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire are not exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus or the traditional teaching on other religions, other Christians(Protestants) and salvation)
So to avoid being considered anti Semitic etc, they are slandering the priest Fr.Leonard Feeney and suggesting that the Letter of the Holy office 1949 made a factual mistake in 'condemning ' him.If the Letter of the Holy Office assumed that the baptism of desire was visible to us, then they would have made an objective mistake too.
The SSPX USA may want to keep their expensive property including the Regina Coeli House, their Headquarters in Platte City,and to maintain their privileges. So they are repeating the lie (visible exceptions) on a doctrinal issue.They are contradicting the SSPX General Chapter Statement (July 19,2012) which affirmed outside the Church there is no salvation with no exceptions. For the SSPX USA there are exceptions and they are allegedly known to them.This is a compromise. It is convenient.It is denying the Catholic Faith. It is denying Tradition.
With no known exceptions all the traditionalists, sedevacantists and orthodox Catholics can agree on the literal interpretation of the dogma on exclusive salvation being there in only the Catholic Church-without any known exceptions.
It means ecclesiology would be ecclesiocentric for even those priests who offer Holy Mass in the vernacular.
If they admitted the truth the SSPX District Superior Fr.Arnaud Rostand at the Regina Ceoli House would be holding the traditional position of the Catholic Church, before and after Vatican Council II.It would be supported by magisterial documents including the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 of Pope Pius XII. The other magisterial documents which support Fr.Leonard Feeney are the CDF, Notification on Fr.Jacques Dupuis S.J (2001), Dominus Iesus 20, Redemptoris Missio 10,55, Vatican Council II (AG 7), Mystici Corporis, Syllabus of Errors, Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441 etc.
-Lionel Andrades
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