Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Prefect of the Congregation for Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith(CDF), Vatican, issued Redemptoris Missio and Dominus Iesus, with Vatican Council II interpreted irrationally and not rationally. So were they Magisterial or not Magisterial? some may ask.

 

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Prefect of the Congregation for Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith(CDF), Vatican, issued Redemptoris  Missio and Dominus Iesus, with Vatican Council II interpreted irrationally and not rationally. So were they Magisterial or not Magisterial? some may ask.

For me, they are Magisterial, since they can be interpreted in harmony with the past exclusivist ecclesiology, the past ecclesiocentrism.

We simply interpret hypothetical and theoretical cases of the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance as being hypothetical and theoretical only. We do not project them as practical exceptions for the past ecclesiocentrism of the Catholic Church. Since they cannot be exceptions in real life. We cannot meet or see someone saved outside the Church.

It is the same with Vatican Council II. The Council interpreted rationally is not a break with the Magisterium the centuries on EENS etc. It does not contradict the past Catechisms and Creeds and the past Magisterium. - Lionel Andrades