Vatican Council II does not contradict what the secular media calls 'the rigorist interpretation' of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS). So why is the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith(CDF) and the Diocese of Manchester, USA asking Brother Andre Marie MICM, Prior of the St. Benedict Center, New Hampshire, to reject the strict interpretation of EENS?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church(846) mentions Ad Gentes 7 which states all need faith and baptism for salvation.While CCC 847-848 do not mention any objective exceptions to CCC 846 in the present times (2019).BOD, BOB and I.I are not objective exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.1
Vatican Council II was dogmatic and not just pastoral.
Similarly when CCC 846 says all who are saved are saved through Jesus and the Church, it is referring to the hypothetical cases of BOD, BOB and I.I and also the dogma EENS.BOD,BOB and I.I can only be hypothetical cases for us human beings . So they do not contradict EENS or Ad Gentes 7.
Outside the Church there is no known salvation and there are only Catholics in Heaven is the message of the Catechism of the Catholic Church(846) and Vatican Council II(AG 7, LG 14).
Yet the CDF and Bishop Peter Libasci, Bishop of Manchester,USA do not clarify and respond to this issue.Neither do they correct their mistake.
Why should the Curia and the lay prayer groups and organisations in Manchester or Boston, interpret Vatican Council II as a rupture with the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church ? Why should they be a break with the theology of the popes and saints over the centuries?
No one from the Charismatic Renewal Movement in the Diocese of Manchester, doctrinally and theologically, supports Bishop Libasci and his Judical Vicar.
They are all really saying that in Heaven there are only Catholics according to Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
-Lionel Andrades
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BOD(Baptism of Desire), BOB ( Baptism of Blood), I.I ( invincible ignorance)
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