The religious congregation of St Francis of Paula, the Minim Fathers, at the Basilica of Sant Andrea delle Fratte, Rome are not teaching the strict interpretation of salvation (EENS) according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church(1994) issued by Pope John Paul II.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church(CCC 846) say all need faith and baptism for salvation, all need to be members of the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. However this is not being taught at Catechism classes.
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
"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:
- 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.
847This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:
- Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.
848
"Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no
fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without
which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the
obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men."
-Catechism of the Catholic Church 846-848
-Catechism of the Catholic Church 846-848
The passages in red
refer to hypothetical cases, theoretical possibilities and not
personally known non Catholics saved outside the Church in the present
times(2019).
The passage in blue agrees with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS)
which says all need to be members of the Catholic Church, for
salvation, all need faith and baptism to avoid the fires of Hell.
The passage in blue
is the norm for salvation in the Catholic Church, it is the rule on how
to go to Heaven, for all people, as taught to the Church over the
centuries, by the Holy Spirit.
For
there to be an exception there would have to be a person saved outside
the Church who is known and physically visible. An invisible person who
does not exist in our reality cannot be an objective exception to all
needing to be members of the Catholic Church for salvation.
So the passages in red are hypothetical only,always. They can only be hypothetical.1
During Catechism, the Minim Fathers interpret the passage in red as being an exception to the passage in blue.This is irrational.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is in harmony with the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS), the past exclusive ecclesiology, an ecumenism of return and the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX.
It is in harmony with Vatican Council II interpreted with Feeneyism instead of irrational Cushingism.
The Minim Fathers need to tell young Catholics, and also their seminarians, that all need to be members of the Catholic Church for salvation and there are no known exceptions.
They need to tell young Catholics that outside the Catholic Church there is no known salvation.Those who die outside the Church are on the way to Hell.
This has been the teaching of the Church for centuries, based on Scripture and Tradition according to Vatican Council II (AG 7).We cannot separate Jesus from membership in the Catholic Church, for salvation( to avoid Hell).
At the basilica of St. Andrea delle Fratte, at the Altar of the Miracle, Alphonse RatIsbonne saw Our Lady. She showed him the beauty of the Catholic Church and its importance for the salvation of all people.
He became a Catholic priest and founded two missionary congregations.
-Lionel Andrades
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