Catechism of the Catholic Church and Dominus Iesus 'constitutive of Catholic teaching ' do not contradict the strict interpretation of EENS : the CDF made an objective error

Comment 

The Manchester NH Dionysian sanction of St. Benedict Center in Richmond is based on the October 20, 2016 Vatican letter stating that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is binding and that it and the Vatican document Dominus Jesus are “constitutive of Catholic teaching”.

CCC 846 “Outside the Church there is no salvation” How are we to understand this affirmation often repeated by the Church Fathers? Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.

Dominus Jesus21. With respect to the way in which the salvific grace of God — which is always given by means of Christ in the Spirit and has a mysterious relationship to the Church — comes to individual non-Christians, the Second Vatican Council limited itself to the statement that God bestows it “in ways known to himself”. Theologians are seeking to understand this question more fully.Their work is to be encouraged, since it is certainly useful for understanding better God's salvific plan and the ways in which it is accomplished. However, from what has been stated above about the mediation of Jesus Christ and the “unique and special relationship” which the Church has with the kingdom of God among men — which in substance is the universal kingdom of Christ the Saviour — it is clear that it would be contrary to the faith to consider the Church as one way of salvation alongside those constituted by the other religions, seen as complementary to the Church or substantially equivalent to her, even if these are said to be converging with the Church toward the eschatological kingdom of God.

Lionel:

' Catechism of the Catholic Church is binding and along with Dominus Jesus is “constitutive of Catholic teaching” and there is no reference in them to an objective person in the present times (1994-2019 for example) saved outside the Church. So there is no  practical exception to the strict interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus mentioned in these Magisterial documents.

This is indicated in the Letter on Doctrine which Brother Andre Marie MICM sent the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It can be read on their website.

So why did the CDF Ad junct Secretary mention these references from the Catechism of the Catholic Church ? He mentioned it since for him and Cardinal Luiz Ladaria, they are references to objective non Catholics saved outside the Church.

This is irrational. Yet upon this irrationality is based their New Theology which they want the St. Benedict to accept.

-Lionel Andrades