The St.Paul Center interprets Vatican Council II with the false premise and so rejects the interpretation of outside the Church no salvation according to the Church Fathers.1
The Church Fathers held the strict interpretation of outside the Church no salvation.It was the same with the Medieval popes. When they mentioned invincible ignorance(I.I) , the baptism of desire(BOD) and the baptism of blood(BOB) they were obviously referring to hypothetical and theoretical cases.They could not be anything else.
However the liberal theologians after the 1930's interpreted BOD,BOB and I.I as being exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS). So in other words they were objective examples of salvation outside the Church,for them to be exceptions.They projected BOD and I.I as exceptions to Feeneyite EENS for ideological reasons. They also re-interpreted the Church Fathers and Medieval popes, when they mentioned I.I etc, as referring to objective exceptions to the strict interpretation of EENS.
They projected the Church Fathers and the popes as saying there were exceptions to all needing to enter the Church for salvation. Among those who promoted this confusion were the Americanists but also Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and then those who would be employed at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and be associated with the International Theological Commission, Vatican.
Even Archbishop Lefebvre would make the same error. The traditionalists then over the next 50 years would misinterpret BOD, BOB and I.I in Mystici Corporis, Quanta Cura etc as exceptions being mentioned by the popes to the 'rigid' interpretation of EENS.
The same mistake is made by Scott Hahn and the apologists at the St. Paul Center.
The Church Fathers are cited on many subjects but not outside the Church there is no salvation. Instead on Wikipedia there is a long list of Church Fathers, popes and saints, who affirmed the strict interpretation of outside the Church there is no salvation.
However Wikipedia, like the St. Paul Center, interprets Vatican Council II, with the false premise.So there are exceptions to the Church Fathers on outside the Church no salvation.
Also Wikipedia interprets the BOD, BOB and I.I as exceptions to Feeneyite EENS. They imply, like the St. Paul Center, that these are visible and non hypothetical examples of salvation outside the Church.
So they contradict the Church Fathers, popes and saints but also Jesus, in the Bible ( John 3:5. Mark 16:16 etc).
With the false premise even the Creed has been changed. The Profesion of Faith which we make in the Church is meaningless since there are two interpretations of the Nicene Creed.There is the version of the St. Paul Center and mine.
-Lionel Andrades
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The Body of Christ is a Literal Reality in the Church
Understanding Vatican II and the One Church of Christ
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