Bishops Fellay, Sanborn and Pivarunas are making the same error as the popes from Pius XII to Francis.

Bishops Bernard Fellay, Donald Sanborn and Mark Pivarunas are making the same error as the popes from Pius XII to Francis.

The three traditionalist bishops blame the popes and Vatican Council II but the fault really lies with a false premise which of all them use to interpret magisterial documents.

They mistakenly interpret the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) as referring to known people saved outside the Church.So the Catechisms, Vatican Council II  and encyclicals  become a rupture with the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Church. In the past it was clear that the Catholic Church had the exclusiveness and superiority in salvation.No false premise was used.

The use of the false premise is not known to the traditionalists who put the blame on Vatican Council II and the popes, when the flaw lies with them. The assume invisible non Catholics are physically visible.Then with this innovative reasoning they interpret the Council.Their conclusion is the Council is a rupture with Tradition and this pleases the liberals.
This is not my conclusion when I avoid the false premise.

The popes have also used this premise or condoned it with silence since the time of Pius XII.

Pope Pius XII overlooked it in the Fr. Leonard Feeney  case.The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 wrongly assumed that invisible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I are visible exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS).

Pope John XIII, accepted this new reasoning in the Church and Pope Paul VI overlooked this new theology, based on the invisible people are visible reasoning, which Pope Benedict made official after Vatican Council II.

This is now the New Theology which I call Cushingite Theology and it has replaced the traditional Feeneyite theology, which understood hypothetical cases as just being hypothetical and definitely not examples of known salvation, in personal cases, outside the Church.



Only with Cushingite theology, the new theology, could there be created a New Ecumenism, New Ecclesiology, New Evangelisation and new Canon Law. They were all created with BOD, BOB and I.I seen as being exceptions to traditional Feeneyite theology, Feeneyite EENS. 

In March 2016 Pope Benedict confirmed that EENS was no more like it was for the missionaries in the 16th century. There was 'a development' with Vatican Council II which was of course Cushingite, for him, since BOD, BOB and I.I have always been Cushingite for him and Cardinal Ladaria.

The popes have made a mistake  and so have Fellay, Sanborn and Pivarunas. The hundreds of priests of the Society of St.Pius X(SSPX) and the sedevacantist communities are following this error.

The popes did not announce that a possibility of being saved outside the church is only speculation and not an actual, known case and so is not a concrete exception to the dogma EENS. Thousands of priests make this mistake.

They did not announce that BOD, BOB and I.I are not practical exceptions in the present times, be it 1949, 1965 or 2017-2018,to EENS.

Now bishops Fellay, Sanborn and Pivarunas have a choice. They can state that BOD, BOB and I.I are not practical exceptions  to the traditional interpretation of EENS.They must announce this.It is something obvious and it has to be said in public.

It is common knowledge that BOD, BOB and I.I refer to invisible people in 2018.It has to be said in public.

They can also announce that hypothetical cases referred to in LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22, AG 11 etc are not practical exceptions to the past exclusvist ecclesiology of the Church.So subsist it in is no more an issue and neither is elements of sanctification and truth in other religions(LG 8).

They can announce that there is no change for them in the Church today, theologically, on ecumenism, outside the Church there is no salvation, mission, the non separation of Church and State and the proclamation of the Social Reign of Christ the King over all political legislation, since the priority is saving souls from going to Hell, where most people go, since they die outside the Catholic Church; without 'faith and baptism'(AG 7).

They can announce that they affirm Vatican Council II but only Vatican Council II,Feeneyite and they continue to reject Vatican Council II, Cushingite.

They can also announce that they affirm EENS, Feeneyite and reject EENS Cushingite which is based on BOD, BOB and I.I, Cushingite.

They can announce that they interpret all the Catechisms with BOD,BOB and I.I Feeenyite.

This will remove the doctrinal confusion in the Church and the traditionalists will have met the Vatican's requirement to accept Vatican Council II for canonical recognition.

The sedevacantists can announce that they have also rejected sedevacantism based on Vatican Council II, Cushingite, which they continue to reject and now affirm Vatican Council II, Feeneyite.

It's a win-win situation.

Things could not be better for the traditionalists and conservatives in the Catholic Church.

-Lionel Andrades