MISSION RETURNS

 

There is no organised mission in the Catholic Church as there was in the Church before 1949.Since in 1949  ‘visible cases’ of the baptism of desire (BOD) and invincibile ignorance(I.I) were wrongly confused as being exceptions for Feeneyite extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS). What was invisible was confused as being visible in the  1949  Letter of the Holy Office (LOHO). With LOHO, the traditional EENS of the missionaries  was made obsolete. 'Why have traditional mission it was asked when there are known non Catholics saved outside the Catholic Church in the present times?'. 

The LOHO mistake was repeated at Vatican Council II. This was when Pope Paul VI and the popes who followed him interpreted Lumen Gentium  14 (BOD) and Lumen Gentium 16 (I.I) as ‘objective ‘ exceptions for Feeneyite EENS. So there no more was the missionary concepts of the Jesuits St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Xavier. There were alleged objective cases on earth of non Catholics saved without faith and the baptism of water. Known cases? Where are they? Who are they? What are their names and surnames in 1965-2023?

But inspite of the irrationality, the doctrine was changed.The understanding of what is the  Church (the eccledsiology) of the Jesuits of the Middle Ages, was no more there.

Now if we interpret Lumen Gentium 14 and Lumen Gentium 16 as being only invisible cases, we return to the Jesuit missionary concept of EENS. Exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church is a motivation for traditional mission. It is ecclesiocentric and also Christocentric. - Lionel Andrades