Repost : Steve Skojec

January 3, 2019

Steve Skojec

Author Steve Skojec executive director of the website 1Peter5 has a BA degree from the University of Steubenville where they teach the New Theology which is based upon a  false premise and inference .With the false reasoning he creates a non traditional conclusion  which is a rupture with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) as it was known in the 16th century when they offered the Tridentine Rite Mass.

So with the New Theology which creates a rupture  with EENS, the Syllabus of Errors and the Catechism of Pope Pius X which says all need to be members of the Catholic Church for salvation he goes for  Mass in Latin and thinks it is the same as the old Mass.

Like the faculty at Steubenville he reads passages in Vatican Council II which refer to hypothetical cases, as being  objective exceptions to the orthodox passages  which support traditional exclusive salvation.

For instance he would read the passage in red as an exception to the passage in blue. This is false.

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."(17) 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)...-Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II. 

So then he interprets Vatican Council II as a rupture with EENS, the past exclusivist ecclesiology, an ecumenism or return etc.

This is common among those who attend only the Latin Mass call themselves traditionalists and believe the theology of the Mass today is the same as in the 16th century.

There are numerous young men and women, Catholics, who accept this reasoning.

Fr. Brian Harrison, a convert to the Catholic Church writes on Steve's website 1Peter5 and will not affirm the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS.He will not admit that invisible cases of the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) are not visible exceptions to the dogma EENS.So the Holy Office in 1949 and the popes since Pius XII were wrong.Instead he would say like Steve that Pope Benedict was correct in March 2016 (Avvenire) when he said that EENS was no more like it was for the missionaries in the 16th century.Since there was a development(rupture) with Vatican Council II( interpreted with the passages in red contradicting those in blue).

This is how Fr. Brian Harrison and Steve Skojec interpret Vatican Council II and EENS.

Unknown cases of non Catholics in 2018-2019 allegedly saved outside the Church are known exceptions to all needing to be members of the Catholic Church for salvation.

So with this reasoning there is a rupture with the 16th century Magisterium for Pope Benedict and the writers at 1Peter5.

This is also how the traditionalist Joseph Shaw , Chairman of the Latin Mass Society, U.K reasons when he teaches philosophy  at the liberal Benet Hall, Oxford.If BOD, BOB and I.I were simply hypothetical cases and LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3,NS 2, GS 22 etc were the same-just theoretical for us - Shaw,Skojec, Harrison and the others would have to affirm the dogma EENS like the  missionaries in the 16th century.But this would be unthinkable for Dr.Joseph Shaw and Fr. Brian Harrison.

So does Steve Skojec also have to fake it  to protect his earnings from1Peter5?

Harrison, Shaw and Skojec are changing the interpretation of EENS so that they can protect their personal and professional interests.

Fr.Brian Harrison if he affirms EENS without BOD, BOB and I.I being alleged exceptions may not be allowed by the USCCB, to offer the Latin Mass.Since he would be saying all non Catholics in general are on the way to Hell outside the Church and there are no known exceptions according to Ad Gentes 7 and the dogma EENS.

So now it is useful for him, like it is for Fr.John Zuhlsdorf, to project BOD,BOB and I.I as referring to known people in 2019.They protect thier careers in this way.

I do not earn any money from this blog(not an euro) but Hilary White and Ann Barnhardt need the financial support of their traditionalist readers  who all interpret BOD, BOB and I.I as referring to personally known non people saved outside the Church.This was how Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre reasoned and so do the SSPX bishops today.

Can you picture Hilary White projecting herself as a Feeneyite in Italian parishes ? No.

It is the same with Steve Skojec.He does not have catechetical  material which interprets Vatican Council II as not being an exception to Feeneyite EENS.Like Fr.Leonard Feeney he does not say that literally, practically, there are no cases of BOD, BOB and I.I.

Even the writers on his blog, like Fr.Harrison, do not say this.So the theology and doctrines which he professes as a Catholic, is clearly leftist.

It could be approved at Benet Hall, Oxford or Steubenville,Ohio.

He too like Bishop Athanasius Schneider could interpret Vatican Council II as a rupture with the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius X and then call for a new Syllabus on Vatican Council II.

The new Syllabus of Errors on Vatican Council II would ignore the false premise( invisible non Catholics are physically visible) and false inference( they are visible examples of salvation outside the Catholic Church and practical exceptions to EENS) which creates a non traditional conclusion( there is a new ecclesiology in the Church,which says outside the Church there is salvation, there is known salvation).

This is the new theology and new salvation doctrines of Steve Skojec.

Steve Skojec needs to clarify that BOD,BOB and I.I refer to invisible and theoretical cases in 2019 only.It is the same with LG 8, LG 16, GS 22 etc.Fr.Brian Harrison and Joseph  Shaw could do the same.

Once this is understood he would then be saying that there are no practical exceptions to EENS mentioned in Vatican Council II or the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

There are also no exceptions to the past ecclesiology, which supported an ecumenism of return and the proclamation of the Social Reign  of Christ the King.-Lionel Andrades

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