Canonist Peter Vere's Cushingite understanding of extra ecclesiam nulla salus and Vatican Council II is now obsolete : so is his Letter to the St.Benedict Center

Canon lawyer Peter Vere's positive comment on how ' a loyal disciple of Father Leonard Feeney can be a Catholic in good standing' 1 is appreciated.However in hs letter 2  his philosophy and theology is Cushingite ( invisible non Catholics are physically visible) instead of Feeneyite( invisible non Catholics in 2018 are always physically invisible).

So since his premise( invisible cases of the baptism of desire etc are visible) is faulty his inference and theology will also be skewered.He chooses Cushingite theology ( outside the Catholic Church there is known salvation) instead of traditional Feeneyite theology( outside the Church there is no known salvation, there is no visible salvation to contradict EENS).

Fr:Richard Shamruk a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and Bishop Bernard Flanagan of Worcester,mentioned in Peter Vere's letter,  were both Cushingites.Invisible cases of the baptism of desire(BOD); baptism of blood( BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) were objective exceptions to the traditional strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).This is how Peter Vere also interprets BOD,BOB and I.I.

Peter Vere, like Fr. Lawrence A Deery,JCL, the Judicial Vicar and Vicar for Canonical Affairs of the Diocese of Worcester,USA, mentioned by Vere, affirmed the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 which is Cushingite. It assumes invisible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I are visible exceptions to Feeneyite EENS. This is irrational.So in their Profession of Faith they re-interpret the Nicene Creed with Cushingite concepts.

This was approved by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctine of the Faith(CDF). Since for him too invisible cases of the BOD, BOB and I.I were visible exceptions to the dogma EENS. So in two theological papers of the International Theological Commission, Vatican he rejected the strict interpretation of EENS. He was assisted by Fr. Luiz Ladaria sj, who is now the Prefect of the CDF.

Similarly Msgr.Camille Perl, like the present ecclesiastics at Ecclesia Dei interpret EENS and also Vatican Council II, since it is politically correct with the Left.

If they chose Feeneyite philosophy and theology ( according to L.A) then Vatican Council II would not be a rupture with the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Church nor with the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS according to Fr. Leonard Feeney.

The theological and doctrinal position of the spiritual descendents of Fr. Leonard Feeney on Vatican Council II may be controversial but on EENS they did not presume that there were practical cases of BOD, BOB and I.I.They did not infer like Peter Vere, that there were literal cases of BOD, BOB and I.I which were exceptions to the traditional strict interpretation of the dogma EENS.

This is the error today also of Cardinal Raymond Burke, Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura, Vatican, who interprets EENS and Vatican Council II with irrational Cushingism. 

-Lionel Andrades

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Canonical Opinion on the Status of Father Feeney’s Doctrinal Position — The professional opinion of a competent canon lawyer on whether a loyal disciple of Father Leonard Feeney can be a Catholic in good standing. This is a letter from Mr. Peter Vere, J.C.L., who obtained his Licentiate of Canon Law from the Faculty of Canon Law at Saint Paul University. As a Catholic writer, canonist and apologist, his work has appeared in numerous Catholic publications, including Surprised by Truth 3. He is the co-author of Surprised by Canon Law: 150 Questions Catholics Ask About Canon Law and More Catholic Than the Pope. Additionally, Mr. Vere is the lecturing professor for the Masters-level course in Canon Law offered by the Catholic Distance University.

http://catholicism.org/downloads.html

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http://www.catholicism.org/downloads/Peter_Vere_SBC.pdf




Present magisterium is Cushingite interprets magisterial documents with an irrational premise : manifest heresy for 16th century magisterium
https://gloria.tv/article/za3VJt1JVqxQ2ZqtoCmvHgu97

• Professio Fidei (3)
• Profession of faith (11)
• Profession of Faith Baptism of Our Lord (2)
• Profession of Faith is not the same for all Catholics (1)
• Professionof Faith (1)

• Nicene Creed-two interpretations (1)

• Nicene Creed (10)
• Nicene Creed was changed with the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 mistake (6)