Repost : Will Gerry Matatics leave sedevacantism ?

FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011

Will Gerry Matatics leave sedevacantism ?

Gerry Matatics has communicated to us that he is in full agreement on sedevacantism and the salvation dogma. That is to say, Gerry holds the sedevacantist position and also agrees that is the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church that the Catholic Faith and the Sacrament of Baptism are absolutely necessary for salvation with no exceptions for “baptism of desire”- from the website of the Most Holy Family Monastery.

I Lionel Andrades wish to communicate to all that I am ‘in full agreement with the salvation dogma’. I agree to the ‘infallible teaching of the Catholic Church that Catholic Faith and the Sacrament of Baptism are absolutely necessary for salvation’, and there are no ‘ exceptions for ’ a de facto, known to us in the present times, “baptism of desire”.

However I am a member of the Catholic Church,faithful to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor popes and I am not a sedevacantist

In 2005 apologist Gerry Matatics , Founder and President, Biblical Foundations International http://www.gerrymatatics.org/  ,did not know there was an alternative.

Now I am saying that the baptism of desire in its very nature is not an exception to the dogma, since it cannot be defacto known to us ever ; we do not know anyone on earth saved with the baptism of desire ,invincible ignorance etc.

De facto every adult with no exception needs to enter the Catholic Church with Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation.

De jure in principle, as a possibility known only to God, a non Catholic can be saved with the baptism of desire or invincible ignorance in the manner God wants.This would include the baptism of water in the Catholic Church, for me, since this is the dogmatic teaching of extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Jesus said all need the baptism of water for salvation (John 3:5) and those who do not believe in Him in the only Church he founded, would be condemned(Mark 16:16). At that time there were no Protestant churches and communities.
We do not and cannot know of any de facto cases of the baptism of desire. So it does not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, according to Cantate Domino, Council of Florence 1441.
-Lionel Andrades