Michael and Peter Dimond at the Most Holy Family Monastery(MHFM), USA are lay Benedictines following the doctrines and theology of St. Benedict himself and the monks of Mt. Cassino of his time.
This is rejected by the former Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, a German, who resides at the Benedictine University of St. Anselm in Rome.(See 4:39 on the video below) It is rejected officially and publically by the Benedictines in general all over the world.
The MHFM, like St. Benedict, affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) and reject the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood (BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I)as being objective exceptions to EENS.It is the same as the Jesuit Fr. Leonard Feeney of Boston.But they would consider the official Benedictines at St. Anselm as being sectarian.Since they interpret BOD, BOB and I.I as referring to non Catholics saved outside the Church, thus contradicting the dogma EENS as it was known and taught by the Benedictines of the past.
This is rejected by the former Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, a German, who resides at the Benedictine University of St. Anselm in Rome.(See 4:39 on the video below) It is rejected officially and publically by the Benedictines in general all over the world.
The MHFM, like St. Benedict, affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) and reject the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood (BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I)as being objective exceptions to EENS.It is the same as the Jesuit Fr. Leonard Feeney of Boston.But they would consider the official Benedictines at St. Anselm as being sectarian.Since they interpret BOD, BOB and I.I as referring to non Catholics saved outside the Church, thus contradicting the dogma EENS as it was known and taught by the Benedictines of the past.
Like the new communities of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate(F.I), former religious sisters, who still live in community as religious,but are registered as a society, Michael and Peter Dimond, live the religious life as Benedictines and attend the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) as lay men.
While the the former Abbot Primate Notker Wolf offers Holy Mass as a religious, and holds the secular leftist interpretation of EENS and BOD,BOB and I.I.So he has rejected the strict interpretation of EENS according to the founder of his community.With a new ecclesiology, based upon visible for him BOD, BOB and I.I he offers the new Mass.This is a rupture with the ecclesiology of the Mass as it was offered by the Benedictines before the Letter of the Holy Office(1949).
For me, the former Abbot Primate Notker Wolf, a Bavarian who ended his term in 2016,and still speaks on Catholic issues for the Benedictines and is the author of many books,represents a false church, with a false theology and philosophy, within the true Church.He does not affirm Vatican Council II( Feeneyite) which is in harmony with the ecclesiology of the Church during the time of St. Benedict. This is an error also of the MHFM.
So today, for vocations, the Benedictines would only accept candidates to the religious life who choose to affirm a rupture with the theology and philosophy of St. Benedict.
So candidates must choose to interpret Magisterial documents with an irrationality.
Michael and Peter Dimond would have no chance to join the Benedictines.Since they avoid the irrationality when interpreting EENS. Perhaps this could be a reason why the founder of the MHFM left the official Benedictines.
I too would have no chance of entering the Benedictines since for me invisible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I are not visible exceptions to EENS. Neither does Lumen Gentium 8 contradict EENS as it was known to the Magisterium and missionaries in the 16th century.For the Benedictines, it does contradict EENS.
Notker Wolf osb, cannot really call himself a Benedictine according to the Rule of St.Benedict, since heresy and schism would be a mortal sin for the original Benedictines.It is also unethical, a lie and deception to use an irrationality ( invisible non Catholics are physically visible to us human beings in general) to reject the dogma EENS, the Syllabus of Errors ( ecumenism of return), the necessity of the Social Reign of Christ the King over all political legislation and the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church which indicated the necessity of the non separation of Church and State, to save souls from going to Hell.
So the 'official' Benedictines are telling a lie in public, and this comes under the area of secular Italian law.
Also according to Catholic Canon Law a juridical person, like an Abbot, is not permitted to publically reject the de fide teachings of the Catholic Church,nor tell a lie and not repent.
He must correct the scandal before he offers Holy Mass.
I will e-mail this blog post to the Benedictines and would expect a reply from them.I would also like to ask them to answer these two additional questions, which are quite simple.
1. Can we humans physically see non Catholics saved with the the baptism of desire, baptism of blood and in invincible ignorance, with or without the baptism of water? My answer is obviously NO.
2.Can we humans physically see non Catholics saved outside the Church with 'elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8),'invisible ignorance'(LG 16), the case of the unknown catechumen who desired the baptism of water before he died ( LG 14),non Catholics saved with 'good will' (GS 22),non Catholics saved with 'a ray of that Truth'(NA2) etc in 2018 or over the last 50 years ? My answer is NO.
Michael and Peter Dimond would also answer these questions with a NO.This is common sense.
-Lionel Andrades
http://test.anselmianum.com/facolta-di-teologia/professori-di-teologia/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notker_Wolf
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