No Statement from SSPX Albano.
The SSPX at Albano are not going to
issue a statement on what I write on this blog and send to them. Since it would
bring attention to this subject. They simply have to announce that LG 8,14 and 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc in Vatican Council II refer to hypothetical cases in 2023. They are not practical exceptions for the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the Athanasius Creed. The issue here is Vatican Council II. How do you interpret Vatican Council II? Is it a break or continuity with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus ? The main issue here is not EENS.
The SSPX faithful have to believe that
Vatican Council II is a break with Tradition. This is the political position of
the Vatican and the Left.
The SSPX do not want to be challenged by the
Left.
They have stacks of books which
interpret Vatican Council II as a break with Tradition. For example, they will
complain that LG 16 says a person can be saved in invincible ignorance and
there is salvation outside the Church. But this is false. This is their irrational interpretation. Lumen Gentium 16 refers to a
hypothetical case. Always. It is always a hypothetical case. This is reality. It is not a practical exception for the dogma extra
ecclesiam nulla salus. This was known to the popes and saints over the centuries.
The mistake was made in the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office and then repeated by Rqahner and Ratzinger at Vatican Councl II.
So if Vatican Council II is interpreted
with LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc as all being hypothetical then
the Council does not contradict the Athanasius Creed which says all need to be
Catholic for salvation.
But if the SSPX Curia interpreted the
Council in this way they would be affirming Feeneyite EENS and Tradition. Their
priests will be expelled by the SSPX. Since the Jewish Left will protest just
as they protested the presence of Bishop Richard Williamson in the SSPX and
then in the main line Church.
So the SSPX has to project Vatican
Council II as a break with Tradition. They cannot tell Pope Francis to
interpret Vatican Council II rationally and so become a traditionalist.
Politically it will not be permitted by the Left. So even though the SSPX
priests speak of a return to Tradition and affirm Traditionin many aspects, they are denying
the faith on this issue. They have the same position on the baptism of desire
and invincible ignorance etc, as do the liberals and the Masons.
For them their reputation and status is
important as it is for others in the main line Church, who do not want to be
expelled as priests and suspended as religious sisters, only for affirming
traditional ecclesiocentrism.
- Lionel Andrades