Bradley Eli at CMTV interprets EENS and Vatican Council II with Cushingism like the present Magisterium : Cushingism is irrational, non traditional, heretical and creates the hermeneutic of rupture with Tradition

Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th. is a staff writer for ChurchMilitant.com.

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CHURCH MEMBERSHIP AND SALVATION

by Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th.

John 14.6: "No one comes to the Father but through me"

Apart from Christ and His Church there is no salvation. In Colossians 1:18 St. Paul affirms, "[H]e is the head of the body, the Church." The Catechism of the Catholic Church in paragraph 846 teaches, "[A]ll salvation comes from Christ the head through the Church which is his Body."

Lionel: True and this does not negate the traditional teaching which says all need to enter the Church as members to avoid Hell. There were no exceptions mentioned by the Church Councils and practically we  cannot know of any exception. So there was an exclusivist ecclesiology in the Church.However Cardinal Ratzinger reminds us in Redemptoris Missio that the past ecclesiology no more exists.

Then he confirmed this in March 2016 (Avvenire).He stated  that extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) is no more like it was for the missionaries in the 16th century.

This change in our understanding of a dogma of the Church, which Pius XII called an 'infallible teaching' and which Pope Benedict called 'a development', comes with the use of what I call Cushingism, as a theology and philosophy. It is commonly known as the New Theology.

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In John 15:5–6 Our Lord says, "I am the vine, you are the branches. … If anyone does not abide in me, he shall be cast outside as the branch and wither; and they shall gather them up and cast them into the fire, and they shall burn." Wherever there is salvation there is this true vine.

Denzinger 1677 quotes Pope Pius IX, who in his 1863 encyclical Quanto conficiamur moerore wrote,

It is known to Us and to you that they who labor in invincible ignorance of our most holy religion and who, zealously keeping the natural law and its precepts engraved in the hearts of all by God, and being ready to obey God, live an honest and upright life, can, by the operating power of divine light and grace, attain eternal life, since God … will by no means suffer anyone to be punished with eternal torment who has not the guilt of deliberate sin. But, the Catholic dogma that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church is well known; and also that those who are obstinate toward the authority and definitions of the same Church, and who persistently separate themselves from the unity of the Church, and from the Roman Pontiff, the successor of Peter, to whom "the guardianship of the vine has been entrusted by the Savior," cannot obtain eternal salvation.

Lionel: Pope Pius IX is very clear here and I agree with him.However the liberal theologians created a problem when they interpreted baptism of desire(BOD), invincible ignorance (I.I) and the baptism of blood(BOB)  as being an exception to the dogma EENS. This implies that  BOD,BOB and I.I are personally known cases.It is only in this way that they can be exceptions.Invisible and unknown people for example cannot be practical exceptions to EENS in 2018.

So when the Baltimore Catechism called the case of the unknown catechumen a baptism and placed this 'Baptism of Desire' in the Baptism Section of the Catechism it was confusing.The baptism of desire is not visible like the baptism of water and neither can we give it to anyone.

 Then years later when the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston considered the baptism of desire an exception to the dogma EENS it was an objective mistake.Since there are no known cases of the baptism of desire for us human beings and the popes do not say that they refer to known people or are practical exceptions to EENS.The inference of the liberal theologians (Rahner, Ratzinger etc) was wrong and they placed the Letter(1949) with the wrong inference in the Denzinger.

So today we can affirm the  strict interpretation of the dogma EENS along with hypothetical and known- only- to God, BOD, BOB and I.I. It does not have to be either-or.

However for Bradley Eli it is either the strict interpreation of EENS or BOD, BOB and I.i.This is reflected in the following passage.

Vatican II repeats this admonition in paragraph 14 of Lumen Gentium: "Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved. … [N]ot only shall they not be saved but they will be the more severely judged."

Bradley Eli is a Cushingite like the two popes and the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Cushingism is responsible for the hermeneutic of rupture with Tradition and so as expected, Michael Voris interprets Vatican Council II as a rupture with Tradition.He cannot affirm the  strict interpretation of the dogma EENS, the Syllabus of Errors and Vatican Council II in harmony.
For him Fr. Leonard Feeney was wrong and the Holy Office 1949 and the Archbishop of Boston were correct. For me Fr. Leonard Feeney was teaching Catholic orthodoxy and the Holy Office and Cardinal Cushing were in heresy.

So with this perspective, for me, Vatican Council II is not a rupture with the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS and the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Church.

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Find out what Catholics must do to be saved in episode 11 of Church Militant's Premium show, Baptize All Nations—Evangelization and Eternal Salvation.

Lionel : The  Baptize All Nations and Evangelisation and other Church Militant TV's Premium  programs are based on Cushingism, which I repeat creates a hermeneutic of rupture with the past.Rodney Pellettier and Bradley Eli at CMTV do not use Feeneyism as  an interpretative theology of magisterial documents.

So when they evangelize it is not with the same doctrines as the missionaries in the Middle Ages.EENS today  is a rupture with EENS of the past for them too as it is for Pope Benedict and the liberals.
-Lionel Andrades

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