The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate at the Basilica of St. Mary Majors,Rome, the seminary at Boccea, Rome and the community house at Tiburtina, Rome are traditional.They are traditional on EENS,the Syllabus, Athanasius Creed etc when they choose to interpret Vatican Council II without the false premise.They do not confuse invisible-for-us Lumen Gentium 16 as being visible.

 

The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate at the Basilica of St. Mary Majors,Rome, the seminary at Boccea, Rome and the community house at Tiburtina, Rome are traditional.They are traditional on EENS,the Syllabus, Athanasius Creed etc when they choose to interpret Vatican Council II  without the false premise.They do not confuse invisible-for-us Lumen Gentium 16 as being visible.

This was understood by Father Rosario Sammarco F.I the Superior of the seminary and Fr. Giuseppe Groni F.I, Parish Priest Santa Maria di Nazareth,Casalotti, Boccea.

I shared this information with them during the recent quarantine months.Fr.Rosario made my written views available to the seminarians who evaluated it critically.

Fr. Rosario Sammarco does not deny that there are no objective exceptions to EENS which we can know in real life.There would be none mentioned in Vatican Council II.

So even though the liturgy of the Fr. Rosario and Fr.Giuseppe is in Italian their ecclesiology is traditional.Since Vatican Council II does not contradict Tradition for them.

This was not the theological position of Fr. Rosario Sammarco some 16 years back.Along with Mons. Brunero Gherardini, Fr. Stefano Manelli F.I, Fr. Serafino Lanzetta and Roberto dei Mattei he projected invisible cases in Vatican Council II (LG 8, LG 16 etc) as being objective exceptions to EENS. So they could only accept Vatican Council II as a pastoral Council.For them the Council with their interpretation, which was common among them, would be contradicting Feeneyite EENS. But like the SSPX, 'crypto Lefebvrists' they would interpret EENS as having exceptions.

So their was Vatican Council II with exceptions to EENS and EENS with BOD, BOB and I.I being having exceptions. This was typical SSPX.

Even though Fr. Rosario Sammarco F.I does not proclaim EENS in public ( for whatever reason ) his theology is rational and traditional without the false premise.He is a Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate who affirms Vatican Council II along with exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church. -Lionel Andrades