1.There are no physically visible cases of a non Catholic saved in invincible ignorance(I.I), baptism of desire(BOD), and baptism of blood(BOB). There are no physically visible or personally known non Catholics saved with 'elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8) outside the Church or where the Catholic Church allegedly subsists(LG 8).Similarly we cannot meet anyone saved in 'imperfect communion with the Church'(LG 8) or because they are saved with good will(GS 22).There are no such people in real life. Only God could know of a non Catholic saved outside the Catholic Church with 'a ray of that truth which enlightens all'(NA 2) or 'good and holy things'(NA 2)in other religions.We do not know any such person.Every one agrees with me. There are no practical exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).There are no literal exceptions to Ad Gentes 7 which says all need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation with faith and baptism.
2.The Catechism of the Catholic Church(845) says the Church is like the Ark of Noah which saves in the flood.God wants all people to be united in the Catholic Church(CCC 845).So outside the Church there is no salvation in 2019.
3.Non Catholics will go to Hell without Catholic Faith and the baptism of water in the Catholic Church. They need the Sacraments of the Catholic Church.If any one is saved without the Sacraments, it would only be known to God.So the norm for salvation is faith and baptism.The norm is not salvation without the Sacraments. The norm is not invincible ignorance.
The norm for salvation is not last minute-repentance.We cannot know any one who is an exception to the norm.We cannot point out to someone and say he will be saved with last minute repentance or in ignorance through no fault of his own.
4.Vatican Council II says all need faith and baptism for salvation (AG 7). We know that most non Catholics die outside the Church and will be going to Hell. They have died outside the visible boundaries of the Church.They are in Hell today.Jesus through the Bible, Sacred Tradition and the past Magisterium has told us what is the norm for salvation; the general way to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.
So Vatican Council II is telling us in Ad Gentes 7 and Lumen Gentium 14 that most people are oriented to Hell and are in Hell today.
5.This is the teaching of Vatican Council II and the popes over the centuries before Pope Pius XII .They knew that BOD, BOB and I.I(with or without the baptism of water) referred to only a hypothetical case. So it could not be an exception to the old, strict interpretation of the dogma outside the Church there is no salvation.
6.It was the popes after Pius XII who confused BOD, BOB and I.I as being personally known non Catholics saved outside the Church.They brought this mistake into the Church.
7.Now we have identified the mistake .There is no more a rupture with Tradition.There is no change in our understanding of the Church(ecclesiology).It is the same before and after Vatican Council II.
It is only with the objective mistake of the popes after Pius XII, that there can be a new theology, new ecclesiology,new evangelisation etc. This new theology is based upon invisible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I being visible examples of salvation outside the. Only in this way BOD, BOB and I.I could be mistaken as being exceptions to EENS.This is false reasoning.There can be no such person known to us humans.
8.So we need to go and proclaim the Good News that all need faith and the baptism of water in the Catholic Church(John 3:5) to avoid Hell .Those who do not believe in Jesus, and follow him in the Catholic Church, will be condemned ( Mark 16:16).
9.Go out and proclaim the Good News.Jesus has died and is Risen.He offered Himself as a Sacrifice for our sins, so that we may be saved from Hell.Those who believe in Him and accept His Sacrifice for them and live the teachings of the Catholic Church will go to Heaven.In Heaven there are only Catholics.
The Bible tells us that the Church is the Mystical Body of Jesus. There is only faith, one baptism and one Church, which Jesus founded.The inspired manuscripts of the Bible were collected by the Catholic Church. The concept of the Trinity was preserved in the Catholic Church.Christianity was originally Catholic.The Apostles and the Church Fathers were Catholic.The Early Christians were the Early Catholics.
10. We affirm all magisterial documents.However unlike the present two popes, the cardinals and bishops and Catholics in general, we do not confuse invisible non Catholics as being visible.This is a mistake they make.We do not confuse what is implicit as being explicit, hypothetical as being defacto known in real life.So our premise and inference,compared to the rest of the Church, is different.It is rational, traditional and non heretical.They must correct their error.
11.We must ask them to correct their error and say unknown cases of the BOD, BOB and I.I are not known exceptions to the dogma EENS.EENS today is the same as it was known to the Magisterium and missionaries in the 16th century.
12.It is the rest of the Catholic Church which must also announce that Vatican Council II with LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc, refer to only hypothetical cases in 2019.They do not contradict the strict interpretation of outside the Church there is no salvation as it was known to the Apostles, Church Fathers and Medieval Fathers.
-Lionel Andrades
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