There is no one on the faculty of the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts who will theologically and doctrinally discuss this issue.
AD GENTES 7,VATICAN COUNCIL II
I have cited Ad Gentes 7 which says all need faith and baptism for salvation. The word 'all' Is used.This would include those who have had the Gospel preached to them and those who have not. If the faculty says only those who know about Jesus and the Church, need to enter, then it is not all.
It would also be a new doctrine. It would mean that the natives in the Americas, before Columbus went there, were already saved before the missionaries arrived.
It would contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) which was defined by three Church Councils.Catholic history was Feeneyite.
EXCEPTIONS TO EENS AND AD GENTES 7
The faculty may say that the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) are exceptions to Ad Gentes 7 and EENS.
Then I would say that they never ever were exceptions. Since they never existed in our human reality.We cannot see someone saved ( or about to be saved) outside the Church. BOD,BOB and I.I can only be hypothetical. This is the way God made it.They cannot be real people. This is something obvious.The popes and saints over the centuries did not consider them exceptions to the dogma EENS. So there really is no known salvation outside the Church.
Similarly, St. Emerentiana, St. Victor, St. Ambrose's friend the Emperor Valentinain,cannot be examples of known salvation outside the Church. There were never exceptions to EENS. The Letter of the Holy Office 1949, which Fr. Karl Rahner sj placed in the Denzinger, made a mistake.
LUMEN GENTIUM 8 NOT AN EXCEPTION TO EENS
The TMC faculty may then cite Lumen Gentium 8 and my answer would still be the same.In 2018 we do not know any one saved with 'elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8) in other religions. So LG 8 has nothing to do with EENS or AG 7.
Similarly we do not know of anyone saved outside the visible boundaries of the Church, as non Catholics, where the Catholic Church would allegedy subsist (LG 8)
The TMC faculty would then say that this the teaching of the Church,right or wrong, presently; of the popes and cardinals.
CARD.SEAN O'MALLEY VIOLATES THE PRINCIPLE OF NON CONTRADICTION
I would say that if Cardinal Sean O'Mally violates the Principle of Non Contradiction and it still is a violation, even if he is a cardinal. If a pope says that we humans in general can see people saved today in Heaven, it still is an error.
When Pope Benedict suggests invisible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I are visible exceptions to the dogma EENS he violates the Principle of Non Contradiction, even if he is the pope. A person allegedly saved with the baptism of desire cannot be in Heaven and on earth at the same time.
So Cardinal Sean O'Malley and the ecclesiastics in New England violate the Principle of Non Contradiction when they suggest that there are exceptions to the dogma EENS, implying there are visible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I or there are personally seen and known cases of non Catholics saved with 'elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8), 'imperfect communion with the Church'(UR 3) etc.
-Lionel Andrades
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