Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Fr.John Zuhlsdorf made an objective mistake : irrational interpretation of Vatican Council II

Fr.John Zuhlsdorf, blogger-priest, made an objective error in the interpretation of Vatican Council II when he used an irrational premise to interpret the Council.The result is a non traditional conclusion, a break with the past.
The fault is not with Vatican Council II but his assuming that salvation in Heaven is visible on earth to be exceptions to the traditional interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
I sent him copies of the blog post 1 on Feb.07,2014 . Then yesterday (Feb.09,2015) I e-mailed him this report.2
I don't expect him to defend himself since the error is obvious and objective.It is not just one theology verses another. Instead we are faced with a factual error. It is  the factual error ( the dead in Heaven are visible and are exceptions to the Feeneyite version of extra ecclesiam nulla salus) which forms the basis for his theology.
Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger overlooked the same error. 3 Due to the oversight of Popes Pius XII, John XXII and Paul VI, the confusion was  recorded  all over Vatican Council II.It was as if the Council was called to incorporate this new teaching ( the dead are visible ) into Vatican Council II (UR 3, NA 2,LG 16 etc) .
However one has to use an inference along with the text in Vatican Council II to create the error. Thank God for those Council Fathers who were alert and blocked Archbishop Cushing and Fr.John Courtney Murray S.J .
Without the inference, without the Marchetti reasoning, Vatican Council II does not contradict extra ecclesiam nulla salus.This is the strong point of the Council. It is traditional.Any Church document which does not contradict the dogma has to be traditional.
Pope John Paul II like Fr.Zuhlsdorf used the inference to interpret Vatican Council II as a break with the past.So did the Bologna School and even traditionalists, like the Society of St.Pius X .
Without the important inference, the political Left will no more consider Vatican Council II as a super dogma.They  may want to neglect it in future.
Without the inference, traditionalists will now be able to say that a pastoral Council is dogmatic! It supports the infallible dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, as it was known over the centuries.
Vatican Council II no more is a break with St.Francis of Assisi and St.Maximillian Kolbe, on outside the church there is no salvation.
 Get rid of the inference and we are back to the past. Avoid the premise and the conclusion is traditional.This is the missing link in the interpretation of Vatican Council II.
To re-phrase Fr.Zuhlsdorf's well known line, 3 avoid the red and do the blue.4
-Lionel Andrades
 
 
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Fr.John Zuhlsdorf interprets Vatican Council II with Marchetti's theory so the Council for him is ambigous and a break with extra ecclesiam nulla salus-1
 
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