Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Canonical status for SSPX priests in Italy: They can interpret the Council without the dead-saved being visible premise


SSPX priests in Italy affirm Vatican Council II in agreement with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus: Archbishops Muller and Di Noia do not.

SSPX priests in Italy hold the traditional teachings of the Catholic Faith which is in agreement with Vatican Council II without the false premise. They deserve canonical status.

They are rejecting an interpretation of Vatican Council II which says the dead are visible (LG 16 etc) and which is maintained by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Ecclesia Dei, Vatican.

The SSPX priests deserve canonical status even though they reject Vatican Council II with the dead man walking theory.They cannot be faulted for ‘rejecting Vatican Council II’ since the Council they are rejecting is not part of the Deposit of the Faith, it is irrational and non traditional. Canonical status is their right. The Vatican should not pretend that those saved in invincible ignorance, seeds of the word, imperfect communion with the church, good conscience etc are physically visible to us and contradict extra ecclesiam nulla salus, Ad Gentes 7 and the SSPX position on other religions and ecumenism.

Zero cases of something are not exceptions, says the U.S Catholic apologist John Martigioni. If there are no visible cases of salvation, of those who are now in Heaven, how can they be known exceptions ? Yet this is claimed by the International Theological Commission (ITC) papers on the Vatican website. Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishops Muller and Di Noia have been associated with the ITC. So has the Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Luiz Ladaria S.J.

The proof of their error and false interpretation of Vatican Council II is there on line in black and white.
The SSPX Prior in Albano, Italy has said that there are no known cases in 2013 of a person now in Heaven who is saved in invincible ignorance or with the baptism of desire. These cases, he said, are not visible to us. They are explicit only for God.

He indicates that when the salvation of non Catholics is mentioned in Vatican Council II it is not salvation physically visible to us in 2013.So how can these cases be considered physically known, observable exceptions to the dogma on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church? And if there are no exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus in Vatican Council II then it means the Council is traditional and in agreement with the SSPX position on other religions and ecumenism.

It is for the CDF to say that the Council is traditional and in agreement with extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The fault is not with the SSPX priests in Italy.They have a right to canonical status.

The SSPX priests in Italy may not want to accept canonical status unless Bishop Bernard Fellay approves it. However, all the same they deserve it. Since they are not denying a Council without the fault premise.
-Lionel Andrades