Saturday, September 30, 2017

Pope Francis supports the Obfuscation Principle in the interpretation of Catholic morals and salvation : correction needed

Pope Francis has supported the Obfuscation Principle in the interpretation of Catholic morals and salvation. The confusion is there in his statement in Columbia on Amoris Laetitia being Thomistic.
The Obfuscation Principle is mixing up what cannot be known as being known, it is a false reasoning. It's subterfuge.It is philophical subterfuge used to change the traditional doctrines of the Catholic Church.
He rejects traditional exclusivist salvation in the Catholic Church by assuming unknown cases of the baptism of desire etc are known and they exclude the baptism of water in the Catholic Church.So they become examples of salvation outside the Church when there are no such cases in real life.There are no practical exceptions in 2017 to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Similarly he rejects the traditional teachings of Jesus on morals by assuming there are known exceptions.For him there are known cases of Catholics living in mortal sin who will not be going to Hell, or, after Amoris Laetitia, who can be given the Eucharist, for example, the divorced and remarried.
This is similar to cardinals Ratzinger and Schonborg in the Catechism of the Catholic Church(1994) mention the three conditions of mortal sin which can only be known to God.So there is confusion on mortal sin.

In either case, faith(salvation) and morals, there are no known exceptions in the present times to the traditional teachings of the Church, since we simply cannot see people in Heaven.If there was an exception it would only be known to God.
However with the Obfuscation Principle, the two popes can pretend that in principle what is unknown is known, in principle what is physically invisible is visible, in principle what is only known to God in Heaven is also known in personal cases to us human beings on earth. This is philosophical cheating.
Outside the Church there is no salvation and all non Catholics in 2017 are oriented to Hell unless they are incorporated into the Church as members and similarly all divorced and remarried couples are living in mortal sin unless they change their life style and receive absolution in the Confessional.There is no confusion here.
There was confusion when the Church wrongly excommunicated Fr. Leonard Feeney who would not accept exceptions to the dogma EENS based on the Obfuscation Principle.Invisible cases of the baptism of desire, baptism of blood and being saved in invincible ignorance could not be visible cases for him. The Church wrongly excommunicated Archbishop Lefebvre for not accepting Vatican Council II interpreted with the Obfuscation Principle and now in Columbia Pope Francis approved the excommunication of Professor José Galat, former rector of the La Gran Colombia University and founder and owner of the television station Teleamiga.There was a time when Cardinal Bergoglio also criticised the pope in public and no one called for his excommunication.
Pope Francis approves the Eucharist being given in general to the married and divorced in Germany, Malta, Italy and other countries.No one says he is in heresy and so is automatically excommunicated.
So there is now a new morality.Docrine has been changed by the two living popes by using an irrationality in faith and morals.If as Catholics we avoid this irrationality we can theologically return to the past ecclesiology, in faith(salvation) and morals.
As Catholics we have a moral obligation to avoid the Obfuscation Principle
.-Lionel Andrades

September 30, 2017

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with Jesuits and laypeople associated with Jesuit institutions in Cartagena, Colombia, Sept. 10. While replying to questions, the pope said that seeking to understand people's real lives does not "bastardize" theology. (CNS/courtesy La Civilta Cattolica)

Philosophical subjectivism in morals and salvation supported by Pope Francis : Amoris Laetitia negates St.Thomas
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Philosophical subjectivism in morals and salvation supported by Pope Francis : Amoris Laetitia negates St.Thomas

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with Jesuits and laypeople associated with Jesuit institutions in Cartagena, Colombia, Sept. 10. While replying to questions, the pope said that seeking to understand people's real lives does not "bastardize" theology. (CNS/courtesy La Civilta Cattolica)
Pope Francis says: 1
To those who maintain that the morality underlying the document is not “a Catholic morality” or a morality that can be certain or sure, “I want to repeat clearly that the morality of ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is Thomist,” that is, built on the moral philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, he said

.Lionel: False it is not Thomist.Instead it is a negation of the morality of St.Thomas Aquinas and St. Alphonsus Liguouri.The philosophical subjectivism in Amoris Laetitia is not Catholic.It is an innovation in the Church.
The same philosophical subjectivism is used by the two popes to reject exclusivist salvation theology held by St. Thomas Aquinas and St.Alphonsus Liguori.
There are no visible cases of the baptism of desire, baptism of blood and being saved in invincible ignorance in 2017 to contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as it was taught by St. Thomas Aquinas. Yet for Pope Francis these hypothetical cases can be known and seen in the present times and so they are explicit exceptions to all needing to be incorporated into the Church as members for salvation.
Similarly there are no known cases in 2017 of people living in manifest mortal sin whom we can say will not be going to Hell and should be able to receive the Eucharist.Yet Amoris Laetitia suggests there are.Now in general the Eucharist is being given to people in mortal sin in Germany, Italy, Malta etc with the approval of the pope.


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One of the best and “most mature” theologians today who can explain the document, he told them, is Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna.
Lionel: Like the pope he says conscience is supreme and for him there is no objective mortal sin.
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“I want to say this so that you can help those who believe that morality is purely casuistic,” he said, meaning a morality that changes according to particular cases and circumstances rather than one that determines a general approach that should guide the church’s pastoral activity.
Lionel: Amoris Laeititia is casuistic on morals just as the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 brought in a new theology in the Church which is casuistic.
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The pope had made a similar point during his meeting with Jesuits gathered in Rome for their general congregation in 2016. There he said, “In the field of morality, we must advance without falling into situationalism.”
Lionel: The New Morality being taught at pontifical universities is based on situationalism and this is expressed in Amoris Laetitia.
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“St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure affirm that the general principle holds for all but — they say it explicitly — as one moves to the particular, the question becomes diversified and many nuances arise without changing the principle,” he had said.
Lionel: In principle salvation and moral theology has been changed with philsophical subjectivism i.e being able to judge exceptions to the rules on salvation and mortal sin when this cannot only be known to God in individual cases.
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It is a method that was used for the Catechism of the Catholic Church and “Amoris Laetitia,” he added.
Lionel: Yes the moral and salvation theology in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is based on philosophical subjectivism.It assumes there are known cases of people saved with the baptism of desire, baptism of blood and in invincible ignorance when there are no such known cases.
Similarly it assumes that we can know the three conditions of a mortal sin when this can only be known to God.

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“It is evident that, in the field of morality, one must proceed with scientific rigor and with love for the church and discernment. There are certain points of morality on which only in prayer can one have sufficient light to continue reflecting theologically. And on this, allow me to repeat it, one must do ‘theology on one’s knees.’ You cannot do theology without prayer. This is a key point and it must be done this way,” he had told the Jesuits in Rome.1
Lionel: The interview is given in Columbia where a Catholic scholar has been excommunicated for criticizing Pope Francis. The pope has approved the excommunication during this visit to Columbia. This is the new morality-Lionel Andrades

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‘Amoris Laetitia’ is built on traditional Thomist morality, pope says
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