LOHO was wrong to criticize Fr. Leonard Feeney and the St. Benedict Center : arguments only exist at the intellectual level. In reality there can be no physical body to contradict the laws of Newton.

 LOHO was wrong to criticize Fr. Leonard Feeney and the St. Benedict Center.

 Arguments only exist at the intellectual level. In reality there can be no physical body to contradict the laws of Newton.

 

All those arguments on the baptism of desire, New Theology, Anonymous Christian, Fr.Leonard Feeney's alleged interpretations and the Letter of the Holy Office(LOHO) 1949 theology and reasoning are now meaningless.Since we know that we cannot reject Newton's Laws on physical bodies, when supporting a theology or philosophy.In the realm of space, time and matter there are no invisible cases of the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and invincible ignorance(I.I) do not exist. So how can distinctions, rules and categories be made regarding people who do not exist.It is the same with Vatican Council II's LG 8, LG 14, LG 16,NA 2, GS 22 etc.

It's meaningless, with reference to EENS,  when LG 8 says 'This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure. These elements, as gifts belonging to the Church of Christ, are forces impelling toward catholic unity.' There are no objective physical bodies of non Catholics saved outside the Church, where the true Church allegedly subsists.This is the physical reality.

The following passage is rational but it is not related to EENS.No physical exceptions can be mentioned here.

This sentence and the correct meaning of "subsists in" affects the definition of the Church with important implications for how the Catholic Church views itself, its relations with other Christian communities and other religions. Questions have been raised about whether Lumen gentium altered the longstanding phrase according to which the Church of Christ is (Latin est) the Catholic Church. Lumen gentium does recognize that other Christian ecclesial communities have elements of sanctification and of truth.-Wikipedia 1

This is another arguement at the intellectual level. In reality there can be no physical bodies which contradict the laws of Newton.No one can be  projected as an exception to EENS. No one saw St.Emerentiana in Heaven without the baptism of water.

Who among us can  create rules regarding when and how a non Catholic will be saved outside the Church with 'elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8) in other religions, or where the true Church of Christ subsists.?

How can we speculate in personal cases in an area known to only God? How can we judge the heart of someone and then say he or she is an exception to the rule?

All these arguments are there at the intellectual, subjective level while physically  there cannot be any exception to traditional EENS. The LOHO arguments seem rational but they cannot be projected as exceptions to the dogma EENS. So LOHO was wrong to criticize Fr. Leonard Feeney and the St. Benedict Center.-Lionel Andrades

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistit_in

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