Basilica of San Camillio de Lellis : Missione

 

Catholics at the Basilica of St.Camillio de Lellis, Roma will not say that all non Catholics need to enter the Catholic Church with faith and baptism to avoid Hell (Ad Gentes 7, Catechism of the Catholic Church 846) and there are no practical exceptions known to us in 2019.

There is a new project at the basilica where they make much of the word Missione but  mean it in a human development, secular sense.They have placed posters outside the Church.

Yesterday evening outside the basilica I spoke to a young lady who was there with a group of priests and religious sisters.I said too a young lady among them who agreed to speak to me, that I too was interested in mission but my theology and doctrines were different as a Catholic.

She saw the title of reports on a pamphlet which said according to Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church most people on earth go to Hell. Also, that all Jews and Muslims and other non Christians, are oriented to Hell since they die with faith and baptism(AG 7, CCC 846).

She said that they do mission according to Pope Francis and the Church.I said even Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church is 'the  Church.'Even what I say is according to the teachings of the Catholic Church.

How can we be Catholic  and do mission with different doctrines and theology?

My views were also those of St.Camillio de Lellis. He believed Lutherans and other Protestants are on the way to Hell.

The priests at this Basilica do not tell the Protestants with whom they have prayer meetings that they need to convert for salvation. This Lent they will again have a joint Stations of the Cross with other Christians.

Last Sunday at the conclusion of Holy Mass in Italian, the lectors, catechists and others who would all proclaim Jesus in this Mission program, could not affirm the necessity of membership in the Catholic Church for salvation.

 

However in this basilica, the Society of St. Pius X(SSPX) who also proclaim Jesus, are not allowed to offer Holy Mass.

But at this Basilica the Paulist Fathers founded by Isaac Thomas Hecker were permitted to offer Holy Mass in English for a long time. 

 

They do not affirm extra ecclesiam nulla salus or Ad Gentes 7 and assume LG 8, LG 16 etc refer to known non Catholics saved outside the  Church in the Church in the present times.

Unlike the founder of the Paulist Fathers, for St. Camilio de Lellis,mission was saving the soul of a non Catholic  by telling him the truth.Every one needed Catholic faith and the baptism of water to avoid Hell.The Catholic Sacraments are needed for salvation.

The young lady then went to pray for the sick,possibly at one of the hospitals where they are not allowed to tell non Catholics that they need to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid Hell.

-Lionel Andrades

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