Boston College has still not apologized for expelling four Catholic professors and Fr. Leonard Feeney for their Catholic religious beliefs including the traditional teaching on there being no salvation outside the Church which we now know is supported by Vatican Council II interpreted rationally

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The four Catholic professors dismissed by Boston College since they held the traditional interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) according to the three Church Councils which defined EENS. The Councils ( Fourth Lateran Council 1215 etc) did not mention any exceptions as held by Boston College, the American Jesuits and Pope Pius XII.

Boston College has still not apologized for expelling four Catholic professors and Fr. Leonard Feeney for their Catholic religious beliefs including the traditional teaching on there being no salvation outside the Church which we now know is supported by Vatican Council II interpreted rationally.

Boston College and the Americanists with the assistance of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican and the Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing, rejected the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. They did this when they interpreted invisible cases of the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance, as being visible examples of salvation outside the Church and so practical exceptions for the dogma outside the Church there is no salvation.

Caption: The sign says Closed for the Public. It was the order given by Cardinal Richard Cushing the Archbishop of Boston. The archbishop interpreted invisible cases of the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance as being visible exceptions for the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. This was also the error in the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston (1949) during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ( Holy Office) made an objective mistake in public.The mistake was repeated at Vatican Council II ( 1965) by Pope Paul VI.

They then asked Fr. Leonard Feeney to go to Rome to defend himself when he was not saying anything new. He correctly refused to do so. The innovation was being made by the American Jesuits and the Vatican, at the time of Pope Pius XII, who did not defend the Jesuit priest, perhaps, for political reasons. This was after World War II and the creation of the state of Israel.

Today Vatican Council II is being interpreted irrationally by Boston College and the USCCB. So the Council is wrongly projected as a break with Tradition when it really is in harmony with the past ecclesiocentrism. So there is no change in the Church's teaching on Religious Libety, the proclamation of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the non separation of Church and State.

The Vatican needs to apologize for the excommunication of Fr. Leonard Feeney. The excommunication was lifted some 19 years, right through Vatican Council II it was maintained, by Pope Paul VI. He also accepted the error in the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office as did Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviano and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

-Lionel Andrades