I wear a badge that gets a mixed reaction.
This is my faith. This is my Catholic Faith. I am in
Rome. This is also the faith of the Catholics in Italy. It is expressed at Holy
Mass in the churches. I am not saying anything new or personal.
At Mass the priests speaks of our belief in Jesus as
the unique Savior, he saves us from Hell- fires. The priest speaks about Jesus
in the Catholic Church.
This is what I am saying with my badge. It is a Profession of my Catholic Faith. I believe in the Catholic Church, His Mystical Body. I follow the Nicene, Apostles and Athanasius Creed. I affirm all the Catechisms interpreted rationally. I interpret Vatican Council II with the hermeneutic of continuity with Tradition.
I affirm hypothetical cases of the baptism of desire,
baptism of blood and being saved in invincible ignorance - and also, the strict
interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) of the Fourth Lateran
Council (1215) at, the time of St. Dominic Guzman and the founding of the
Dominic Order.
So like Pope Francis, the cardinals and bishops I am
affirming Magisterial Documents, but I interpret them rationally and not
irrationally.
There has been no new announcement from the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican and the Vatican officially
rejecting the Creeds, Councils, Catechisms and in particular Vatican Council II
and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. So I am still following the
historical Catholic Church in Italy without rejecting Vatican Council II and
the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
According to the Italian Constitution I have a right
to hold my religious beliefs in public .-Lionel
Andrades
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