Tuesday, September 3, 2013

THE NARROW GATE

Sunday before last, in the homily at Holy Mass the priest said Jesus referred to only one gate, the narrow gate, and not to many gates leading to the Kingsom of God, to Heaven.If there were many paths leading to Heaven Jesus would not refer to only one.
 
The priest said that elsewhere in the Gospel Jesus has said that the way to Hell is wide and most people take it- so enter through the narrow gate.
I agreed with him. For me, this priest was saying at Mass in English that the narrow gate is Catholic Faith with the baptism of water (AG 7,CCC 846, Dominus Iesus 20 etc). Catholic faith includes the moral and faith teachings , the Sacraments, the interpretation of the Bible, communion with the present pope, the popes , Church Councils, and saints of the past, communion with those in Heaven and Purgatory.In agreement with Sacred Tradition. Through Catholic Faith we learn to enter the narrow gate and avoid the wide one which leads to eternal death.-Lionel Andrades
 
 

SSPX priest tries to defend Fr.Gleize

I was speaking to an Italian  priest of the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) last Sunday morning at their chapel in Rome and called his attention to Fr.Gleize saying in a book distributed by the SSPX that there was an exceptional way of salvation which Pope Pius XII referred to in Mystici Corporis.
 
He began to defend the book with theology and I mentioned I was in agreement with him. The problem was in philosophy, empiricism etc.
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If there was a box of oranges I said and there was one apple in the box then the apple would be an exception because of its color etc but also fundamentally, because it existed in the box. If the apple was removed from the box there would be no exception.
So how can the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance be an exception to the dogma on salvation which says all need to be a visible member of the Church for salvation. We do not know any such case, we cannot see them physically, we cannot meet these persons on earth saved with the baptism of desire.
At first he thought that Mystici Corporis mentions the word exception or says that these cases are exceptions.Then he also assumed like so many other Catholics that other magisterial documents make this same claim.
I cited Ad Gentes 7 which says all need faith and baptism for salvation and also mentions that a person can be saved in invincible ignorance. Vatican Council II (AG 7) does not state that those saved in invincible ignorance etc are known to us, they are visible to us or that they are exceptions. One has to assume this wrongly.
There is no magisteral text which says there is an exceptional way.
Similarly the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 issued during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, does not state there are known exceptions to the dogma on salvation but one can wrongly imply it.
This was the error of Cardinal Richard Cushing who assumed there were known exceptions to the literal and traditional interpretation of the dogma by Fr.Leonard Feeney.The error of Cushingism is there in other books published by the Italian Dictrict of the SSPX whose Superior is  Fr. Pierpaolo Petrucci.

The same error is made on the website and web pages of the SSPX District North America ( SA and Canada).Fr. Arnaud Rostand is the  District Superior (USA).
-Lionel Andrades

Fr.Jean Marie Gleize makes a doctrinal error in a book published by the SSPX

A professor of Ecclesiology of the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) who participated in the SSPX-Vatican doctrinal talks has written a book with an incorrect observation of Pope Pius XII's Mystici Corporis.
 
Fr.Jean Marie Glleize claims that in Mystici Corporis Pope Pius XII says ' in the exceptional way one can be saved outside the visible limits of the Catholic Church.' (1)
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The exceptional way? How can there be an exceptional way? How can there be any exception to all needing to be a visible member of the Catholic Church for salvation? Where is the text in Mystici Corporis which uses the word exception or indicates there are exceptions to the literal interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus? How can there be exceptions when we do not know any such case. We cannot name any such case in 2013.
 
There is no such text in Mystici Corporis which says there are exceptions!
 
Fr.Gleize has made the same error as Cardinal Luiz Ladaria S.J and Bishop Charles Morerord O.P his liberal counterparts in the doctrinal talks.This is the error of Cushingism. This is also the error made by Pope Francis in his  encyclical when he assumed that Christians have ecclesial faith. He contradicted his statement in May this year, when he said we cannot find Jesus outside the Catholic Church, citing Pope Paul VI and St.Igantius of Loyola.
 
Magisterial documents only mention the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance.They do not state that these cases are exceptions to the dogma.They can be accepted as possibilities or something probable but not defacto, known cases in the present times.
 
Fr.Gleaze assumes they are visible to us,  de facto and so they are 'exceptions'. He says this is an exceptional way, when we do not know if there was a single case of the baptism of desire etc over the last 60 years or more.
 
If a way implies a path one can take, then the baptism of desire etc is not a way.Since we cannot choose to be saved with the baptism of desire or in invincible ignorance. In principle the baptism of desire is a means of salvation but defacto it is not a way of salvation.So de facto it is not an exceptional way.It is not an exceptional or regular way of salvation.
 
Upon this factual error,of being able to see the dead saved who are exceptions, Fr.Gleaze has built his theology, which ends up with the rejection of Vatican Council II. Since for him all salvation mentioned or alluded to in Vatican Council II would be explicit and so an exception to the dogma on salvation, the Syllabus of Errors etc.He uses a false premise which results in a hermeneutic of rupture. The fault is not with Vatican Council II.
 
The book Vaticano II- Un Dibattito Aperto (Editrice Ichthys) 2013 is published by the SSPX District Italy, Albano,Rome.It has a preface written by Bishop Bernard Fellay.
 
According to the  blurb on the back cover of this  book being sold by the SSPX  Fr.Gleize is a priest of their community  and has been a professor of Fundamental Theology at the SSPX seminary in Econe, Switzerland.From 2009-2011 he has been active as an expert in ecclesiology in the doctrinal talks with the Holy See,requested by Pope Benedict XVI.
 
One can interpret Mystici Corporis with Feeneyism (there are no known exceptions) or with Cushingism (there are known exceptions to the dogma). The SSPX's Fr.Gleize, Peter Scott, Francois Laisney and others have always used the irrational Cushingism.
-Lionel Andrades
 
 
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'19.Risposta alla terza obiezione: in Mystici corporis Pio XII dice che in via eccezionale ci si può salvare al di fuori dei limiti visibili della Chiessa Cattolica...'-Don J.M Gleize FSSPX (p.152. Editrice Ichthys.VIII Il 'Subsistit in'-Status Quaestionis),Vaticano II-Un Dibattito Aperto Questioni disputate sul XXI Concilio Ecumenico