Therefore those men cannot be saved, who though aware that God, through Jesus Christ founded the Church as something necessary, still do not wish to enter into it, or to persevere in it."-Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II
Those also can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience.-Lumen Gentium 16.
Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.-Lumen Gentium 14
In the first paragraphs of the Letter Fr.Leonard Feeney is supported and in the latter paragraphs he is criticised.
Similarly Ad Gentes 7 supports the dogma and Fr.Leonard Feeney (blue) and then also suggests that there are exceptions to the dogma (red).
14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism(124) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved. Therefore those men cannot be saved, who though aware that God, through Jesus Christ founded the Church as something necessary, still do not wish to enter into it, or to persevere in it."-Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II
Here is the same pattern in Lumen Gentium 14.The dogma is affirmed then it is suggested there are exceptions.
14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church. Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.-Lumen Gentium 14
The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude...God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.-Catechism of the Catholic Church 1257
846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers? (on extra ecclesiam nulla salus as known traditionally)...Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body( there are those who are saved without the baptism of water and they are known to us personally and so contradict the traditional understanding of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.).
The Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing and the Jesuits thought there were known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and so they inserted this error in the Council (1) and the Catechism. It causes confusion. The SSPX assumes the Council and the Catechism are modernist heretical documents.
-Lionel Andrades
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Second Vatican Council.
At the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) Cushing played a vital role in drafting Nostra Aetate...His emotional comments during debates over the drafts were echoed in the final version- Wikipedia
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