Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirm the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus : CDF, Diocese of Manchester irrational and heretical

The St.Benedict Center affirms the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) and teaches like the popes of the past that there are only Catholics in Heaven. This is in harmony with Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church(CCC).They also cite Dominus Iesus and other Magisterial documents which can be read in a Letter on Doctrine on their website.

VATICAN COUNCIL II

Vatican Council II affirms the strict interpretation of EENS with Ad Gentes 7 which can be read in the passage in blue while the passage in red is not an objective exception to the passage in blue. It refers always to a hypothetical and theoretical case.

Hypothetical cases cannot be known Catholics saved outside the Church in 2019.

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. -Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Catechism of the Catholic Church(CCC) also affirms the strict interpretation of EENS in CCC n. 846.

 

 
"Outside the Church there is no salvation"
846 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: 

 

Even with this re-formulation the Catechism of the Catholic Church N.846 does not contradict the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS).

So even though all salvation comes from Christ through the Church which is his Body  all need faith and baptism for salvation(Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II). All.

 We personally cannot know of any exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS). We personally cannot judge if someone will be saved in invincible ignorance outside the Church. This would only be known to God if it happens.

So the following passage in CCC 846 and also Lumen Gentium 14 is not an exception to the strict interpretation of EENS. It is irrelevant to the dogma EENS as it was interpreted for example, by the Magisterium of the 16th century.

 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.

Here is the passage from Vatican Council II( AG 7) which is also  cited in CCC 846.1    So Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church are Feeneyite.They affirm the strict and traditional interpretation of EENS defined by three Church Councils in the Extraordinary Magisterium.Pope Pius XII called it an 'infallible teaching'(Letter of the Holy Office 1949).  

For the St.Benedict Center the passages in red refer to hypothetical cases, theoretical possibilities known only to God. So they are not objective. Nor are they practical exceptions to EENS.

For the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Bishop Peter Libasci, Bishop of Manchester, USA, and his Curia, the passages in red, refer to known and visible non Catholics, seen in the flesh by us human beings. So they become practical exceptions  to EENS.

So the conclusion of both groups is different since their premise is different.

The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the Saint Benedict Center are rational and have a hermeneutic of continuity.

The CDF and the Diocese of Manchester are irrational and have created a hermeneutic of rupture with the past( EENS, Syllabus of Errors etc).

The Saint Benedict Center is orthodox while the CDF and Bishop Peter Libasci and his curia are heretical and offer Holy Mass in this sacrilegrous condition.

It is also unethical and dishonest according to secular standards to project unknown people as being known exceptions to EENS and then legally claiming that the St. Benedict Center are not 'Catholic' since they do not accept this deception, which is continued even after ecclesiastics have been informed.-Lionel Andrades                                      

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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.

-Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II