Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Ten prominent examples of Cushingism in the Catholic Church


Cushingism is heretical and irrational it is an innovation in the Church and yet it is the norm today.The whole Church thinks Cushingite.Vatican Council II was prominently Cushingite in Lumen Gentium 14 and Ad Gentes 7  while Cushingite reasoning is repeated all over the Council-text.
Pope Benedict gave us a Cushingite interpretation of Vatican Council II and extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) in March 2016 (Avvenire) and Cardinal Luiz Ladaria s.j did the same on March 1,2018 in answer to a question at the Placuit Deo Press Conference.
The Letter of the Holy Office 1949 was pure Cushingism and it influenced Cardinal Ratzinger's writing of Redemptoris Missio and Dominus Iesus.The International Theological Commission papers Christianity and the World Religions and The Hope of Salvation for Infants who die without Baptism, are Cushingite.
Bishop Bernard Fellay repeated the SSPX's common Cushingism in a Letter to Friends and Benefactors N.82( see right hand bar label/tags) and it is there creeping all over the SSPX website when you access 'Feeneyism'.
Cushingism is loosely referred to as the New Theology.However by calling it Cushingism  I differentiate it  from the old theology which I call Feeneyism.
What is Cushingism?
Cushingism as a philosophy assumes hypothetical cases are not hypothetical. Feeneyism  accepts hypothetical cases as just being hypothetical.
Cushingism as  a theology assumes hypothetical cases are known examples of non Catholics saved outside the  Church.They are saved without 'faith and baptism'(AG 7).So there is salvation outside the Church is the New Theology.There is known salvation.This is the common error.

Feeneyism rejects this.There is no known salvation outside the Church.If someone was saved outside the Church it would be known only to God.
So Feeneyism( according to L.A) accepts BOD, BOB and I.I as hypothetical cases but does not posit them as being exceptions to EENS.They never were. Invisible people in the present times cannot be exceptions.
So BOD, BOB and I.I are not rejected. They can only be accepted as hypothetical cases. This is obvious. There is no other rational choice.

So with Feeneyism it is not BOD or EENS, one does not have to choose between the two.It is not BOD( invisible cases are visible) or EENS( all need to be members of the Church for salvation).
With the widespread use of Cushingism, after the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 was officially promoted,there was created a Vatican Council II (Cushingite) and an EENS( Cushingite).They were interpreted with BOD, BOB and I.I (Cushingite).
For me there is only a Vatican Council II (Feeneyite) and EENS(Feeenyite) with BOD, BOB and I.I being also Feeneyite.

For the traditionalists Vatican Council II( Cushingite) contradicts EENS(Feeneyite) and the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Church( Feeneyite).They are correct. So they reject Vatican Council II (Cushingite) and still do not know that there is a choice.
For me there is no conflict between Vatican Council II ( Feeneyite) and EENS( Feeneyite). I am using the old theology which is rational.
So with Feeneyite philosophy( hypothetical cases are just hypothetical) and theology( outside the Church there is no known salvation for us humans) there is no rupture with Tradition( Syllabus of Errors, past ecclesiology etc).
Note : here I have referred to Feeneyism and Cushingism according to L.A  but you can also refer to it with any other name, since,I am only calling attention to general principles and giving it a name so that we can be concrete in a discussio.
You can name them after yourself.I will not mind!
The general principles are we can see someone or something objectively and other people and things we cannot.Some things exist in our reality and others do not. With our senses we can physically touch something but there are other things which we cannot touch. For us something can only be theoretical and abstract and not concrete and real.
Here are 10 examples of Cushingism

1.
LETTER OF THE HOLY OFFICE 1949
Therefore, that one may obtain eternal salvation, it is not always required that he be incorporated into the Church actually as a member -Letter of the Holy Office 1949  1

This is heretical and it has derailed theology in the Catholic Church.
2.
LUMWN GENTIUM 14, VATICAN COUNCIL II
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.- Lumen Gentium 14, Vatican Council II   2


3.
AD GENTES 7, VATICAN COUNCL II
Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door. Therefore those men cannot be saved, who though aware that God, through Jesus Christ founded the Church as something necessary, still do not wish to enter into it, or to persevere in it." Therefore though God in ways known to Himself can lead those inculpably ignorant of the Gospel to find that faith without which it is impossible to please Him (Heb. 11:6), yet a necessity lies upon the Church (1 Cor. 9:16), and at the same time a sacred duty, to preach the Gospel. And hence missionary activity today as always retains its power and necessity...-Ad Gentes 7
The passages marked in red are Cushingite passages. It was also a mistake here to place references to BOD, BOB and I.I, alongside orthodox passages which support EENS(Feeneite) as if they are relevant as exceptions. 3

4.
INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION, CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS
'10. Exclusivist ecclesiocentrism—the fruit of a specific theological system or of a mistaken understanding of the phrase extra ecclesiam nulla salus—is no longer defended by Catholic theologians after the clear statements of Pius XII and Vatican Council II on the possibility of salvation for those who do not belong visibly to the Church (cf, e.g., LG 16; GS 22)...'-International Theological Commission, Christianity and the World Religions
'on the possibility of salvation for those who do not belong visibly to the Church'  4

A possibility is not a visible case.This is a mistake in the inference.

5.
INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION, THE HOPE OF SALVATION FOR INFANTS WHO DIE WITHOUT BAPTISM
58. In the face of new problems and situations and of an exclusive interpretation of the adage: “salus extra ecclesiam non est”,[88] the magisterium, in recent times, has articulated a more nuanced understanding as to the manner in which a saving relationship with the Church can be realized.

59. The Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston (1949) offers further specifications. “To gain eternal salvation, it is not always required that a person be incorporated in reality (reapse) as a member of the Church, but it is necessary that one belong to it at least in desire and longing (voto et desiderio). It is not always necessary that this desire be explicit as it is with catechumens.-The Hope of Salvation for Infants who die without being Baptised,International Theologocal Commission 5


6.
SSPX WEBSITE, FR. FEENEY AND CATHOLIC DOCTRINE
Many of our friends have heard of Fr. Leonard Feeney, and some of them have a great esteem for this priest who fought against the liberal ecumenism by recalling again and again that outside the Church there is no salvation. But, to make his point, Fr. Feeney went so far as to exclude Baptism of desire (and martyrdom) from the means of salvation. His teaching was then condemned by the Holy Office in 1949, and he himself was excommunicated in 1953. It should be sufficient to recall that this happened under the pontificate of the saintly Pope Pius XII, and that the letter of the Holy Office was signed by Cardinal Ottaviani, who was not a liberal either. 
Fr. Feeney and Catholic doctrine,SSPX website

In the past three years, there has been increasing discussion within traditional Catholic circles concerning the issue of the three baptisms. There have been a number of works, even videos, that have come into circulation on the topic, each of which seems to uphold essentially the same view, namely:
"unless one is baptized with the baptism of water "in re," "in actuality," that one will necessarily be damned (i.e., deprived of the beatific vision).
SSPX WEBSITE, THE THREE BAPTISMS 
The proponents of this doctrine are followers of the teaching of the famous American Jesuit, Fr. Leonard Feeney, who cites the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus ( Outside the Church there is no salvation) against anyone who would claim the existence of three baptisms.-The Three Baptisms by Fr.Joseph Pfieffer,SSPX website


SSPX WEBSITE, THE THREE ERRORS OF THE FEENEYITES
Misrepresentation of the dogma, "Outside the Church There Is No Salvation"
The first error of those who take their doctrine from Rev. Fr. Leonard Feeney, commonly known as "Feeneyites," is that they misrepresent the dogma, "Outside the [Catholic] Church there is no salvation." The Feeneyites misrepresent this as, "Without baptism of water there is no salvation."-The Three Errors of the Feeneyite by Fr.Francois Laisney, SSPX website


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CARDINAL GERHARD MULLER : MISTAKES HYPOTHETICAL REFERENCES AS BEING EXPLICIT IN THE PRESENT TIMES.
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That has been discussed, but here, too, there has been a development of all that was said in the Church, beginning with St. Cyprian, one of the Fathers of the Church, in the third century. Again, the perspective is different between then and now. In the third century, some Christian groups wanted to be outside the Church, and what St. Cyprian said is that without the Church a Christian cannot be savedThe Second Vatican Council also said this: Lumen Gentium 14 says: “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.” He who is aware of the presence of Revelation is obliged by his conscience to belong publicly — and not only in his conscience, in his heart — to this Catholic Church by remaining in communion with the Pope and those bishops in communion with him.
But we cannot say that those who are inculpably ignorant of this truth are necessarily condemned for that reason. We must hope that those who do not belong to the Church through no fault of their own, but who follow the dictates of their God-given conscience, will be saved by Jesus Christ whom they do not yet know. Every person has the right to act according to his or her own conscience. - Cardinal Gerhard Muller (10/02/2012 ). Archbishop Gerhard Müller: 'The Church Is Not a Fortress', National Catholic Register  

8.ARCHBISHOP AUGUSTINE DO NOIA : ASSUMES WHAT IS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD CAN BE KNOWN AND JUDGED BY US HUMAN BEINGS.

I don’t know if you can blame this on the Council so much as the emergence of a theological trend that emphasized the possibility of salvation of non-Christians. But the Church has always affirmed this, and it has never denied it. …The Council did say there are elements of grace in other religions, and I don’t think that should be retracted. I’ve seen them, I know them — I’ve met Lutherans and Anglicans who are saints.' - Archbishop Augustine di Noia ( 07/01/2012 ), Archbishop Di Noia, Ecclesia Dei and the Society of St. Pius X, National Catholic Register.



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 9.BISHOP BERNARD FELLAY  ASSUMES THEORETICAL POSSIBILITIES KNOWN ONLY TO GOD ARE EXPLICIT IN THE PRESENT TIMES AND RELEVANT TO EENS

 
The same declaration (LG, 8) also recognizes the presence of “salvific elements” in non-Catholic Christian communities. The decree on ecumenism goes even further, adding that “the Spirit of Christ does not refrain from using these churches and communities as means of salvation, which derive their efficacy from the fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Catholic Church.” (UR, 3)
Such statements are irreconcilable with the dogma “No salvation outside of the Church, which was reaffirmed by a Letter of the Holy Office on August 8, 1949". -Bishop Bernard Fellay  (April 13, 2014 ) Letter to Friends and Benefactors no. 8

10.



PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY

by Cardinal Walter Kasper, from the website of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, Vatican

In the course of the Council the “subsistit in” took the place of the previous “est”.[7] It contains in nuce the whole ecumenical problem.[8] The “est” claimed that the church of Christ Jesus “is” the Catholic Church. This strict identification of the church of Christ Jesus with the Catholic Church had been represented most recently in the encyclicals Mystici corporis (1943) and Humani generis (1950).[9] But even according to Mystici corporis there are people who, although they have not yet been baptised, are subsumed under the Catholic Church because that is their express desire (DS 3921). Therefore Pius XII had condemned an exclusive interpretation of the axiom “Extra ecclesiam nulla salus” already in 1949.Lionel: He means Fr. Leonard Feeney was wrong since B is an exception to A. The baptism of desire is an exception to all needing to convert into Church with no exceptions)
The Council went a decisive step further with the aid of the “subsistit in”. It wished to do justice to the fact that there are found outside of the Catholic Church not only individual Christians but also “elements of the church”(Lionel: These 'elements' are known and so are exceptions to the traditional teaching on all needing to be formal members of the Church.He infers they are known and are found outside the Church. So B ( saved-elements) is an exception to Aindeed churches and ecclesial communities which, although not in full communion, rightly belong to the one church and possess salvatory significance for their members (LG, 8, 15; UR, 3; UUS, 10-14). (Lionel : And they are known to us in the present times.They are relevant exceptions to the dogma.So B is an exception to AThus the Council is aware that there are outside of the Catholic Church forms of sanctification which even extend as far as martyrdom (LG, 15; UR, 4; UUS, 12, 83). (Lionel: So outside the Church there are known cases of persons saved who are not members of the Church, with 'faith and baptism', and these persons being known makes B is an exception to A) .The question of the salvation of non-Catholics is now no longer answered personally as in Mystici corporis on the basis of the subjective desire of single individuals, but institutionally on the basis of objective ecclesiology.(Lionel: He means ecclesiology has changed since B is an exception to traditional A .There is no more exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church for him) 

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/card-kasper-docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20041111_kasper-ecumenism_en.html 10


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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017



Those who accept the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 make Vatican Council II a rupture with Tradition :popes can avoid this

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2017/09/those-who-accept-letter-of-holy-office.html

JANUARY 26, 2018
Hilary White and Massimo Faggioli interpret the Catechism, Vatican Council II and Letter of the Holy Office with hypothetical cases not being hypothetical : so there is a rupture with Tradition (with graphics) http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2018/01/hilary-white-and-massimo-faggioli.html


2.

DECEMBER 30, 2015


False reasoning from the Letter is all over Vatican Council II: Abp Lefebvre did not notice it -2

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-false-reasoning-from-letter-is-all_30.html

DECEMBER 30, 2015


The false reasoning from the Letter is all over Vatican Council II and Archbishop Lefebvre did not notice it -1

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2015/12/the-false-reasoning-from-letter-is-all.html


3.
JUNE 21, 2018

Here is Vatican Council II ( Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14 and Unitatis Reintigratio 3) interpreted with Feeneyism : the Cushingite passages are removed or highlightedhttp://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2018/06/here-is-vatican-council-ii-ad-gentes-7.html


APRIL 11, 2015
Ad Gentes 7 can be interpreted with Feeneyism or Cushingism
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2015/04/ad-gentes-7-can-be-interpreted-with.html



4.

The International Theological Commission's position paper Christianity and the World Religions 1997 has an objective factual error and is approved by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger : invincible ignorance is not an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2012/03/international-theological-commissions.html


VATICAN'S INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION MAKES AN ERROR IN ITS POSITION PAPER CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2012/03/vaticans-international-theological.html



MAY 18, 2018

Former Secretary of the International Theological Commission holds that those saved with the baptism of desire and in invincible ignorance are known to us and so an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus



The International Theological Commission(ITC), Vatican made an objective error in two of its theological papers and Catholic parents can correct the error when teaching the Faith to their children : Voice of the Family , Rome Life Forum ignores this family issue
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-international-theological.html

JUNE 13, 2014

The International Theological Commission,Vatican is using the irrational column http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-international-theological.html



APRIL 7, 2014

Cardinal Luiz Ladaria S.J and Pope Benedict XVI made a factual error : Analysis      http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2014/04/cardinal-luiz-ladaria-sj-and-pope.html

5.
MAY 29, 2015
In The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized they used Marchetti theology, an irrational theology  http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-hope-of-salvation-for-infants-who.html
INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION USES PREMISE THAT IS FACTUALLY INCORRECT : LIMBO
  
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2012/03/international-theological-commission_29.html

6.
http://archives.sspx.org/miscellaneous/feeneyism/fr_feeney_catholic_doctrine.htm
http://archives.sspx.org/miscellaneous/feeneyism/three_baptisms.htm
http://archives.sspx.org/miscellaneous/feeneyism/three_errors_of_feeneyites.htm
 NOVEMBER 23, 2017
SSPX recognises that Abp.Lefebvre's writings are obsolete : seminaries have to make the correction  http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2017/11/sspx-recognises-that-abplefebvres.html

 JULY 19, 2016
Archbishop Thomas E. Gullickson, Fr.S.Visintin osb, John Martignoni and Catholic priests in Rome say that the baptism of desire is not an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.They are familiar with the basic laws of nature .Humans can only see visible things  http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2016/07/archbishop-thomas-e-gullickson.html

OCTOBER 31, 2014
This is the ‘official’ heresy of the Letter of the Holy Office and it has been accepted by the SSPX and the magisterium http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2014/10/this-is-official-heresy-of-letter-of.html
 JULY 23, 2014
SSPX is writing on theology with a premise from physics, a rejection of physical laws :metaphysics is mixed with reality
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2014/07/sspx-is-writing-on-theology-with.html


7.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/archbishop-mueller-the-church-is-not-a-fortress/#ixzz3pwkg3Mur
CARDINAL GERHARD MULLER : MISTAKES HYPOTHETICAL REFERENCES AS BEING EXPLICIT IN THE PRESENT TIMES.
Cardinal Muller, Archbishop Di Noia and Bishop Fellay's theology is based on hypothetical cases being explicit exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2016/06/cardinal-muller-archbishop-di-noia-and.html

CARDINAL GERHARD MULLER, ARCHBISHOP AUGUSTINE DI NOIA, BISHOP BERNARD FELLAY MISTAKE HYPOTHETICAL REFERENCES AS BEING EXPLICIT IN THE PRESENT TIMES http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2016/06/cardinal-gerhard-muller-archbishop.html

OCTOBER 18, 2017
Maike Hickson could ask for a clarification from Cardinal Muller on the SSPX canonical status :objective error in interview with Pentin  http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2017/10/maike-hickson-needs-clarification-from.html

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http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/archbishop-dinoia-ecclesia-dei-and-the-society-of-st.-pius-x/#ixzz3Q1Vx3byR

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http://www.dici.org/en/documents/letter-to-friends-and-benefactors-no-82/

10.
 OCTOBER 26, 2015
Cardinal Kaspar changed ecclesiology assuming B is an exception to A : he used an irrational model to interpret Vatican Council II http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2015/10/cardinal-walter-kasper-said-in.html
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JUNE 24, 2018


Primer on Feeneyism and Cushingism    http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2018/06/primer-on-feeneyism-and-cushingism.html







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