THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS NOT RETRACTED OUTSIDE THE CHURCH NO SALVATION - Fr. Angelo M. Gaetta, Responsible, Basilica of St. Mary Majors, Rome.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS NOT RETRACTED OUTSIDE THE CHURCH NO SALVATION

- Fr. Angelo M. Gaetta,
Responsible, Basilica of St. Mary Majors, Rome.

Father Angelo M. Gaetta, F.I, is an Italian priest of the religious community Franciscans of the Immaculate. He is also the priest responsible at the Sacristy over the last few years at the Basilica of St. Mary Majors, Rome.

The Franciscans of the Immaculate founded by Fr. Stefano Mannelli F.I have always been faithful to the Magisterium.

Fr. Angelo has been the editor of the magazine Christ to the World CTW (Christo al Mondo).The magazine removed many misconceptions about Catholic teaching, being spread by the secular media.

For example Christ to the World would say that no where in Nostra Aetate, Vatican Council II is it said that other religions are paths to salvation. No where is it said in Nostra Aetate that the members of other religions do not have to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation.

CTW would have many articles on the great Catholic missionaries, without watering down their beliefs on extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

There were many articles on the teachings of St. Alphonsus Ligouri, Father of Moral Theology. CTW stated that St. Alphonsus taught that if a priest is in mortal sin, do not go to receive the Sacraments from him. It would be a grave sin on your part, if you would go to receive the Eucharist at Mass from him, when you could have easily have gone for Mass in another Church to fulfil your Sunday obligation.

CTW published an article Church Has Not Retracted outside the Church No Salvation.

We are living in time of much confusion on this subject.Lumen Gentium 16 refers to invincible ignorance and implicit faith (without the baptism of water) as to a concept only.Yet it is interpreted as de facto salvation, as if we can judge specific cases.

St. Pius XII said in ‘certain circumstances’ persons with implicit faith (without the baptism of water) can be saved (Letter of the Holy Office 1949).So cases of implicit faith (LG 16) do not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. If implicit faith is there in certain circumstances’ and known only to God then it is a concept for us. Only a concept.

“Everyone needs to believe in an ex cathedra dogma,” said Bro. Peter John F.I, he is a Friar of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, working at the St. Mary Major Basilica Sacristy.The Filipino Friar laughs and says it is unthinkable for a Catholic not to believe in an ex cathedra dogma. He has in mind the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady.Yet outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation is also an ex cathedra dogma.So how could the Church retract it as Fr. Angelo and the Franciscans have said in CTW?

Here is the ex cathedra dogma.

• “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)

• “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 302.)

• “The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.) – from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS)
http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholiicchurch.blogspot.com/

The dogma above does not say that those in invincible ignorance or implicit faith do not have to enter the Catholic Church.De facto we do not know of any specific case of implicit faith. De jure we accept the possibility. (LG 16).

Lumen Gentium 14 refers to the ordinary means of salvation and Lumen Gentium 16 the extra ordinary means of salvation said Fr. Massimilliano dei Gaspari F.I, an Italian priest and a Superior of the Franciscans of the Immaculate in Rome. His views are shared by Fr. Tullio Rotondo, a diocesan Italian priest in Rome. Fr. Tullio calls attention to St. Leonardo of Port Maurice’s statement that the majority of people are damned to Hell and only a comparatively a few are saved. Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7) indicates billions of non Catholics in modern cities of the world today who know about the Jesus and the Catholic Church and yet do not enter are on the way to Hell.

This is the message of the dogma and Fr. Angelo M.Gaetta.