Liberal Pattern . This is how the ploy works knowingly or unknowingly

 There is a standard approach to error among the Catholic liberals. It is so common that they keep repeating it without really thinking it through.

Here is how it works.

1. They ignore or reject the strict  interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) as cited by the popes and saints.

2.They will cite a passage from Vatican Council II which they will interpret with a false premise, to create a rupture with Tradition, as mentioned in Number 1 above.

3.They may also quote the Catechism of the Catholic Church also interpreted with the false premise, to contradict Number one above.

4.Then some may cite the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 in which the false premise is used to contradict Feeneyite EENS.

5.So their conclusion is that the Church no more teaches the strict interpretation of EENS and  theoretical possibilities are practical exceptions.

LIBERAL EXAMPLE : RALPH MARTIN

1.St.Thomas Aquinas is never cited.

 

ST.THOMAS AQUINAS IS NEVER QUOTED AFFIRMING THE STRICT INTERPRETATION OF THE DOGMA EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS (EENS).

2.

He presents hypothetical cases, possibilities as exceptions to the strict interpretation of EENS which he does not cite.

(Time. 29:29) Sometimes people say that is it possible for people to be saved without hearing the Gospel. It is. And the Church clearly teaches that, based on Romans Chapter 1 and Romans Chapter 2. And in Section 16 of the Constitution of the Church this is where the Church lays out its definitive teaching on the possibility of people being saved without hearing the Gospel. We really need to know this. We really need to be clear about this. Because there is so much, so much confusion here.What the Council teaches and what we find in the Catechism of the Catholic Church..it's  possible for people under certain circumstances to be saved without hearing the Gospel.What are those circumstances what are those conditions? There's three  of them, one is that people have to be inculpably ignorance ot hearing the Gospel. It's not there own fault that they don't know the path to salvation,.they haven't heard and it hasn't been their own fault that they haven't heard .Now sometimes a lot of us have experienced that we have friends, relatives neighbours....-  Ralph Martin.

 THEORETICAL POSSIBILITIES ARE PRESENTED AS PRACTICAL EXCEPTIONS TO EENS

. 1. And the Church clearly teaches that, based on Romans Chapter 1 and Romans Chapter 2.

2. And in Section 16 of the Constitution of the Church this is where the Church lays out its definitive teaching on the possibility of people being saved without hearing the Gospel. We really need to know this. We really need to be clear about this. Because there is so much, so much confusion here.

3What the Council teaches and what we find in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

CONCLUSION

This is the crisis in the Church. The liberals like Ralph Martin, do not cite the saints and popes on the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS.Then they cite hypothetical and speculative possibilities.They imply that these hypothetical possibilities are real examples of salvation outside the Catholic church and are practical exceptions to EENS.

This is 'a truth of the faith which is in conflict with the culture' and Ralph Martin does not not proclaim it.-Lionel Andrades