The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) video on the daily Mass Readings presents Jesus without the necessity of the Church. Jem Sullivan from the Dominican House of Studies (who could be a religious or a lay person) gives the 'homily' today based on the Mass Readings of the day. For her evangelisation is Jesus without membership in the church as a necessity for salvation. Jesus without the necessity of 'faith and baptism' ( Ad Gentes 7). Catholic Faith and sacramental baptism are not necessary for Sullivan.Some one who believes in Jesus and is a member of the Jehovah Witness could be saved.Jehovah's Witnesses could be saved in general. She could even be saying 'Jesus without any church'.
She could not say that evangelisation is inviting people into the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. This is not possible.Since the Holy Office 1949 inferred that the baptism of desire was not implicit but explicit for us. The USCCB also infers that implicit desire and being saved in invincible ignorance are explicit, objectively seen in some people. The dead- saved are visible exceptions to the traditional interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.So for the USCCB there is known salvation outside the Church and the kerygma must exclude the necessity of being a formal member of the Church for salvation.
This error since the 1950's is being taught at pontifical universities and it must have been part of the religious formation of Jeb Sullivan.
Instead Sullivan should have been saying outside the Church there is no salvation, 1) we personally do not know any one saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire in 2014 and 2) the Church does not state/infer in any pre-1949 magisterial document that implicit desire refers to explicit cases. 3) Neither do these magisterial documents state that these cases are explicit exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.So this is a wrong inference made by the USCCB and so many other Catholics.
When the Letter of the Holy office 1949 mentioned implicit desire and being saved in invincible ignorance with reference to Fr.Leonard Feeney - it was wrong.It was not relevant to his interpretation of the dogma which says sacramental baptism is needed by all with no exceptions.
Sullivan should have said evangelize since all non Catholics ( Protestants included) are on the way to Hell unless they convert into the Catholic Church with 'faith and baptism'(AG 7).
-Lionel Andrades
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http://www.usccb.org/bible/reflections/
July 11, 2014
Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbot
Lectionary: 387
Lectionary: 387
Reading 1 HOs 14:2-10
Thus says the LORD:
Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God;
you have collapsed through your guilt.
Take with you words,
and return to the LORD;
Say to him, “Forgive all iniquity,
and receive what is good, that we may render
as offerings the bullocks from our stalls.
Assyria will not save us,
nor shall we have horses to mount;
We shall say no more, ‘Our god,’
to the work of our hands;
for in you the orphan finds compassion.”
I will heal their defection, says the LORD,
I will love them freely;
for my wrath is turned away from them.
I will be like the dew for Israel:
he shall blossom like the lily;
He shall strike root like the Lebanon cedar,
and put forth his shoots.
His splendor shall be like the olive tree
and his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar.
Again they shall dwell in his shade
and raise grain;
They shall blossom like the vine,
and his fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim! What more has he to do with idols?
I have humbled him, but I will prosper him.
“I am like a verdant cypress tree”—
because of me you bear fruit!
Let him who is wise understand these things;
let him who is prudent know them.
Straight are the paths of the LORD,
in them the just walk,
but sinners stumble in them.
Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God;
you have collapsed through your guilt.
Take with you words,
and return to the LORD;
Say to him, “Forgive all iniquity,
and receive what is good, that we may render
as offerings the bullocks from our stalls.
Assyria will not save us,
nor shall we have horses to mount;
We shall say no more, ‘Our god,’
to the work of our hands;
for in you the orphan finds compassion.”
I will heal their defection, says the LORD,
I will love them freely;
for my wrath is turned away from them.
I will be like the dew for Israel:
he shall blossom like the lily;
He shall strike root like the Lebanon cedar,
and put forth his shoots.
His splendor shall be like the olive tree
and his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar.
Again they shall dwell in his shade
and raise grain;
They shall blossom like the vine,
and his fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
Ephraim! What more has he to do with idols?
I have humbled him, but I will prosper him.
“I am like a verdant cypress tree”—
because of me you bear fruit!
Let him who is wise understand these things;
let him who is prudent know them.
Straight are the paths of the LORD,
in them the just walk,
but sinners stumble in them.
Responsorial Psalm ps 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14 and 17
R. (17b) My mouth will declare your praise.
Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
R. My mouth will declare your praise.
Behold, you are pleased with sincerity of heart,
and in my inmost being you teach me wisdom.
Cleanse me of sin with hyssop, that I may be purified;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
R. My mouth will declare your praise.
A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
R. My mouth will declare your praise.
Give me back the joy of your salvation,
and a willing spirit sustain in me.
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.
R. My mouth will declare your praise.
Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
R. My mouth will declare your praise.
Behold, you are pleased with sincerity of heart,
and in my inmost being you teach me wisdom.
Cleanse me of sin with hyssop, that I may be purified;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
R. My mouth will declare your praise.
A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
R. My mouth will declare your praise.
Give me back the joy of your salvation,
and a willing spirit sustain in me.
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.
R. My mouth will declare your praise.