December 5, 2018 (Cardinal Newman Society) — The Catholic Church in New England will soon have a new higher education option with the arrival of Thomas Aquinas College, a well-respected Great Books college in Santa Paula, California, that plans to begin classes next fall at its new branch campus in Northfield, Mass., pending approval from its accreditor.
It joins two other nearby colleges — Northeast Catholic College in Warner, New Hampshire, and The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire — providing authentic Catholic education and embracing faithful Catholic tradition, liturgy and culture in a region where Catholics have struggled with clergy scandals and increasing secularism. All three colleges are recommended in The Newman Guide for their strong Catholic identity.
“When Pope John Paul II made the case for the ‘new evangelization,’ he acknowledged that the faith has withered in many societies where it was once dominant, such as our own,” said Philip Lawler, a Catholic journalist and program director of the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture at Thomas More College.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/faithful-college-coming-to-new-england-to-help-spur-catholic-revival-in-sec
The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts faculty do not interpret Vatican Council II and other magisterial documents. If they did it would not be politically correct with the Left and the Catholic bishops (USCCB).
I Vatican Council II rationally and traditionally.
ECUMENISM OF RETURN
Based on Vatican Council II, I affirm an ecumenism of return.Since Ad Gentes 7 says all need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation.
ECUMENISM OF RETURN
Based on Vatican Council II, I affirm an ecumenism of return.Since Ad Gentes 7 says all need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation.
For the faculty at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Vatican Council II is a rupture with the Old Ecumenism. Since UR 3 refers to known non Catholics saved outside the Church. So upon this irrational reasoning is based the New Ecumenism which is taught at this college.
EENS ACCORDING TO THE 16TH CENTURY
Based on Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7) I affirm the strict interpretation of outside the Church there is no salvation. Ad Gentes 7 says all need faith and baptism for salvation.
PAST ECCLESIOLOGY SUPPORTED
EENS ACCORDING TO THE 16TH CENTURY
Based on Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7) I affirm the strict interpretation of outside the Church there is no salvation. Ad Gentes 7 says all need faith and baptism for salvation.
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This missionary activity derives its reason from the will of God, "who wishes all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, Himself a man, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself as a ransom for all" (1 Tim. 2:45), "neither is there salvation in any other" (Acts 4:12).
Therefore, all must be converted to Him...and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door...
By means of this activity, the Mystical Body of Christ unceasingly gathers and directs its forces toward its own growth (cf. Eph. 4:11-16). The members of the Church are impelled to carry on such missionary activity by reason of the love with which they love God and by which they desire to share with all men the spiritual goods of both its life and the life to come.
Finally, by means of this missionary activity, God is fully glorified, provided that men fully and consciously accept His work of salvation, which He has accomplished in Christ.-Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II
For the faculty of this college there is no strict interpretation of the dogma EENS. Since the baptism of desire, baptism of blood and being saved in invincible ignorance refer to personally known non Catholics, and not just hypothetical cases, saved outside the Church in the present times. Since they are known people saved as such the strict interpretation of the dogma EENS is rejected.
This was the irrational reasoning in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949.
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PAST ECCLESIOLOGY SUPPORTED
With the strict interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) and the rational interpretation of Vatican Council II for me there is only the past exclusìvist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church based on Ad Gentes 7.
LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc refer to hypothetical and invisible cases only. So they do not contradict Ad Gentes 7 and EENS according to the missionaries and Magisterium of the 16th century.
They interpret hypothetical cases of LG 8 etc as being non hypotheticalThey refer to visible people saved outside the Church in 2018 or over the last 50 years. This is irrational. However with this irrationality they reject the past ecclesiology of the Catholic Church and support the New Ecclesiology based upon a false premise and inference.
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SOCIAL REIGN OF CHRIST THE KING BASED ON AD GENTES 7
So the priority for me would be the Social Reign of Christ the King since outside the Church there is no salvation(AG 7).
They cannot proclaim the Social Reign of Christ the King since outside the visible boundaries of the Catholic Church there is known salvation for them.There are exceptions to EENS and the past ecclesiology.
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NON SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE BASED ON EENS
I would support the non separation of Church and State since every one needs to be a member of the Catholic Church for salvation (AG 7).
For them every one does not need to be a member of the Catholic Church for salvation. EENS is no more like it was for the missionaries in the 16th century as Pope Benedict XVI said in March 2016 (Avvenire). So the non separation of Church and State and the proclamation of the Social Reign of Christ the King is not more a priority. There are new doctrines.
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TRADITIONAL MISSION DOCTRINE RETURNS
I support mission programs since Vatican Council II (AG 7) indicates all non Catholics are oriented to Hell unless they enter the Church before death with 'faith and baptism'.Most people die outside the Church and so they are in Hell. The Church is saying in Vatican Council II that most people are in Hell.
Pope Benedict in March 2016 question the need for mission with his interpretation of Vatican Council II. Vatican Council II contradicts the 16th century understanding of EENS. Similarly for the college faculty there is known salvation outside the Church.Hypothetical cases of BOD, BOB and I.I are not just speculative possibilities they are real people saved outside the Church and who are known to human beings. This is the reasoning of the faculty.
This is the reasoning of the USCCB bishops,the Cardinal Newman Society and the journalists at LifeSites News.
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So I support Tradition by re-interpreting Vatican Council II rationally.They reject Catholic Tradition by irrationally interpreting Vatican Council II. This has the approval of the two popes, the political Left and the college accreditors.
-Lionel Andrades
http://rome.thomasmorecollege.edu/
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DECEMBER 7, 2018
Alleged faithful college coming to New England,USA is Cushingite and not Feeneyite : interprets Vatican Council II and Catechism with an irrational premise to create a hermeneutic of rupture with Tradition
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2018/12/alleged-faithful-college-coming-to-new.html
DECEMBER 6, 2018
The European Union and the Leftists are forcing the Vatican to interpret Vatican Council II as a rupture with the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS). The Italian government must also note that the same irrational interpretation of Vatican Council II is being forced upon Italian Catholics and non Italians studying and working in Italy.
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-european-union-and-leftists-are.html
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