Sunday, August 4, 2013

SSPX and Lumen Fidei : no comment still

The irrationality in Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis' encyclical, is still unknown to the SSPX and traditionalists .No one has commented when Pope Francis suggested that all Christians have 'ecclesial faith'.
 
If Christians have 'ecclesial faith' then it is a contradiction to Vatican Council II.It is an irrational interpretation of the Council.It is not using the official  teaching of magisterial texts but the unofficial one which is popular and uses an irrational premise.
 
What is the theological basis for this new doctrine?
 
 Where in Tradition before or after Vatican Council II , is there a known exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus to suggest that non Catholics can be saved outside the Church ?
 
Is 'imperfect communion with the Church' (UR 3) a known, visible to us exception to the dogma? It is a possibility known to God  only but perhaps Pope Francis assumes that it is a known reality and so also an exception. This is the basis for him saying that Christians have 'ecclesial faith'. He is implying that they are members of the Catholic Church, they are part of the Mystical Body of Christ.
 
 Does the Catechism of the Catholic Church (846) mention exceptions to all  needing to enter the Church 'as through a door' and all adults needing Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation?
 
Perhaps Pope Francis like the Jesuits and the SSPX assume  that  these cases are known to us in 2013 .So for him, Protestants  and Orthodox Christians have ecclesial faith, the faith that saves.
 
This is not only a break with the Jesuit missionaries St.Ignatius of Loyola, St.Francis Xavier and St.Robert Bellarmine but it also contradicts the magisterial documents of Pope John Paul II.
 
Pope John Paul II was in agreement with tradition. All need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation(  Catechism of the Catholic Church 846, Dominus Iesus 20 etc ).This was the same  traditional message of Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441(extra ecclesiam nulla salus) on 'heretics' and 'schismatics' needing to enter the Church to avoid 'the fires of Hell'.
 
Fr.Arnaud Rostand the District Superior of the SSPX(USA)  should have issued a clarification on Lumen Fidei.

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