The two popes are interpreting Vatican Council II with a false premise, as approved by the Left, and without any acknowledgement of the error, a new encyclical is to be announced tomorrow on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

 

The two popes are interpreting Vatican Council II  with a false premise, as approved by the Left, and without any acknowledgement of the error, a new encyclical is to be announced tomorrow on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

About all the books and articles on Vatican Council II confuse Unitatis Redintigratio(UR) 3 as an exception  to an ecumenism of return, when there is nothing in the whole of UR to contradict the traditional doctrines on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church.

Similarly the books and articles on Ecclesiology written by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and the other cardinals, project LG 8, LG 15, GS 22 etc as exceptions to 16th century extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS). Without the false premise, without confusing what is invisible as being visible and hypothetical as objective, there is nothing in the whole of Lumen Gentium to contradict Feeneyite EENS.

To project hypothetical cases in UR, NA, LG  as being exceptions to traditionl Mission doctrines, is an objective error.

I intepret Vatican Council II as a continuity with the strict interpretation of EENS, that of the Middle Ages, and the Vatican, Catholic apologists and the Latin Mass traditionalists do not acknowledge it. Since for political reasons, which protect their career and income, they do  not want to go back to the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church. They need and want the rupture with Tradition.

So like the encyclicals of Pope Paul VI and the popes, who followed,Pope Francis issues another encyclical , which interprets Vatican Council II with a false premise and inference  to create an artificial rupture with Tradition, including a rupture with the exclusivist ecclesiology of the stigmatist St. Francis of Assisi.-Lionel Andrades