Sunday, November 5, 2017

Worcester traditionalists have compromised on theology and doctrine for canonical recognition?

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The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at St.Benedict Center, Still River, Massachusetts, in the diocese of Worcester who have been recognized as an Association by Bishop Robert McManus have an ambiguous position on Vatican Council II and the extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS).They seem to reject both.
On the St.Benedict Center, Still River website in the diocese of Worcester where Bro.Thomas Augustine is the Prior there are no articles/reports affirming the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS as did Fr.Leonard Feeney and Catherine Goddard Clarke.
Nor have they made the distinction between Vatican Council II with and without the premise, Vatican Council II Cushingite and Feeneyite or the Council being a rupture with the Syllabus of Errors or in harmony.
This ambiguity could have helped Bishop Robert McMahon make a decision.The bishop rejects EENS ( premise-free) and Vatican Council II(premise-free).For his Curia it is EENS( with the premise) and Vatican Council II( with the premise).
So St.Benedict Center, Still River, could have compromised on theology accepting the new theology based on known cases of the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) which are alleged exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.The premise is invisible pèople are visible.
They could also have compromised on salvation -doctrine.Since invisible cases are visible for Bishop McManus, there are alleged known exceptions to the past ecclusivist ecclesiology of the Church and the Syllabus of Errors.So they have accepted a new ecclesiology when they offer the Tridentine Rite Mass which is not Feeneyite.It is in conflict with the magisterium over the centuries.
The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,St.Ann's House which was part of the Worcester community,is listed among the religious communities on the website of the diocese of Worcester.But according to a report on Catholicism.org, posted by Brother Andre Marie MICM, Prior at St.Benedict Center,Richmond,N.H, in the diocese of Manchester, the St. Ann sisters are no more Feeneyites.
Faith and charity do not link the religious at the two St.Benedict Centers.On their website at Worcester they state  'the St.Benedict Center in Still River is not associated or affiliated with St. Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire or catholicism.org '. Brother Thomas Augustine  could be under  pressure from the Jewish Left.
Another indication-Brother Thomas Augustine has compromised on theology and doctrine  for  recognition from local secular and church institutions.It is no  more outside the church there is no salvation but outside the Church there is known salvation.This is the official position of the Vatican since the Boston Case.
Does it mean that EENS can no more be proclaimed as a community  but only privately?
Vatican Council II is accepted as a rupture with EENS with LG 16,GS 22,UR 3 etc referring  to visible and known people saved outside the Church ( Christianity and the World Religions, ITC) there is no more an exclusivist  ecclesiology with an ecumenism of return. So the ecclesiology of the St. Benedict Center, Still River  is the new ecclesiology based on invisible BOD,BOB and I.I being a visible exception to the past ecclesiology.
It's not known if the Worcester traditionalist community of has compromised.They do not affirm theology and doctrine on their website. 
The community at Los Angeles which had not asked for canonical recognition from Cardinal Gomez, a few years back, since they wanted keep their traditional theology and salvation doctrine, live as a community of brothers in the lay state.
Presently it seems the St. Benedict Center Richmond N.H has not compromised on the dogma EENS but their interpretation of Vatican Council II is done with the irrational premise.- Lionel Andrades


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https://www.saintbenedict.com/theorder/stbenedict-center-history