Cardinals Nicols and Ladaria misinterpreted Vatican Council II last month : liberals can no more cite the Council without the false premise

Liberals can no more cite Vatican Council II.Last month Cardinal Luiz Ladaria and Cardinal Vince Nicols did just this.They did not know that they were using a false premise to re-interpret the text of the Council. Without this irrational premise they could not quote Vatican Council II to make a point.

 Cardinal Nicols on March 30,2018 told the BBC that the Church does not say that any person is in Hell. 

This is false since the  Church says this in the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) defined by three Church Councils. But he rejecs the dogma EENS by citing LG 8, LG 16, GS 22 etc in Vatican Council II as referring to known and visible people saved outside the Catholic Church in the present times. In this way they become exceptions to EENS.Otherwise his statement on Hell has no relevance without this innovation.

 Also he does not know any person who has committed suicide and will go to Heaven because of the mercy of God and contrary to the general teachings on morals, salvation and  Hell.

CARDINALS MAKE A MISTAKE

Similarly at the Press Conference on Placuit Deo (March 1,2018) Cardinal Luiz Ladaria s.j  indicated in answer to a question from a lady jounralist of the Associated Press,  that Lumen Gentium 8 was an exception to the traditional understanding on the Catholic Church having the superiority and exclusiveness of salvation.

Again like Cardinal Nicols he assumes there are known people saved with 'elements of sanctification and truth'(Lumen Gentium  8) outside the Catholic Church and so for him they are exceptions to the traditional exclusivist ecclesiology of the Church.Without this irrational premise. he could not quote LG 8. It would be meaningless for him to cite LG 8 as a just a hypothetical case, speculation with good will.

We now know the general mistake made in the interpretation of magisterial documents the cause of the Arian -like type of heresy in the Church. So now the liberals  cannot misinterpret Vatican Council II as a rupture with the Syllabus of Errors and the past ecclesiology of an ecumenism of return.

Both Ladaria and Nicols did this last month.-Lionel Andrades