Fr.Leonard Feeney was correct and Pope Pius XII and the Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Cushing were wrong.Literally there are no baptism of desire cases.
Lionel Andrades is correct and Cardinal Luiz Ladaria sj was wrong at the Placuet Deo Press Conference. Literally there are no known cases of non Catholics saved outside the Church with 'elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8) or, because the Catholic Church subsists some where outside its visible boundaries (LG 8).There are no practical exceptions to EENS.
Even theologically Fr. Leonard Feeney was correct and Pope Pius XII, Cardinal Cushing and Archbishop Lefebvre were wrong.Theologically we cannot know of someone saved outside the Church without faith and baptism.So outside the Church there still is no salvation.
Theologically even Cardinal Ladaria is wrong.Since there are no visible cases of LG 8, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 which would be examples of salvation outside the Church and so would contradict the traditional teaching on the Catholic Church having the superiority and exclusiveness in salvation.
Similarly literally and theologically Pope Benedict was wrong in March 2016( Avvenire) when he said that extra ecclesiam nulla salus was no more like it was for the missionaries in the 16th century since there was a development with Vatican Council II and so he questioned the need for Mission.
There is no development with Vatican Council II since LG 8 etc refer to invisible and unknown people in our reality. So they are not exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.
Ad Gentes 7 says all need faith and baptism for salvation and so there is the need for mission.
We have to keep in mind that literally there are no known cases of the baptism of desire, baptism of blood and being saved outside the Church; saved without faith and baptism .So there are no exceptions to EENS.
Lumen Gentium 14 is not an exception to EENS since there are no known cases of a non Catholic saved in invincible ignorance. LG 14 is a mistake in the text of Vatican Council II when it refers to 'only those who know'. The error comes from the faulty reasoning in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949. The Letter assumed unknown cases of non Catholics saved in invincible ignorance were known exceptions to all need to be incorporated into the Catholic Church as members.They would have to be known to be exceptions. Invisible people cannot be exceptions to the Church's teaching on all needing to be incorporated into the Church as members. A speculative and hypothetical possibility of someone being saved outside the Church is not objective exception to the Feeneyite interpretation of the dogma outside the Church there is no salvation.
Similarly literally there are no known cases of LG 8 etc who are examples of salvation outside the Church without faith and baptism in 2018. So there are no exceptions to EENS in Vatican Council II or the Catechism of the Catholic Church(1994).
-Lionel Andrades
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