The excommunication of Fr. Leonard Feeney was false since the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and invincible ignorance(I.I), never ever were exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS).So he was not obliged to go to Rome to defend himself.
We humans cannot meet or see any one saved with BOD, BOB and I.I outside the Church.So this is a non issue.
We cannot administer the baptism of desire to anyone. So it is not a Sacrament like the Baptism of water.
No one saw St.Emerentiana in Heaven without the baptism of water and we do not know any one in 2019 who will die like Dismas the Good Thief.St. Ambrose speculated and hoped that his friend the Emperor Valentinian was in Heaven, without the baptism of water.He could not personally know.
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre could only hope and beleive that a young catechist who sought the baptism of water and died before receiving it, would be in Heaven.Personally he could not judge.
St. Francis Xavier and the saints tell us God sent people who died without the baptism of water, back to earth, only to be baptised with water.
No one today can name any exception to EENS.
Cardinal Raymond Burke , for example, also does not know of any person saved with BOD,BOB and I.I outside the Church, during his life time.So he does not know of any exception to Feeneyite EENS.I am sure he would confirm this if asked.
So the excommunication of Fr. Leonard Feeney was false.It was a leftist and political excommunication.
Similarly Archbishop Lefebvre was correct about Vatican Council II ( Cushingite).It is a rupture with Tradition.It is heretical.
With a false premise, LG 8 etc are projected as known exceptins to EENS. So he should not have been excommunicated for rejecting Vatican Council II ( Cushingite).
It was Cardinal Ratzinger, the Prefect of the CDF who made a mistake.He did not affirm Vatican Council II( Feeneyite).Neither did he announce that the Council could be interpreted without the mistake.
Brother Andre Marie MICM, Prior, St. Benedict Center, N.H in his correspondence with the CDF, which can be read on line, has said that there are no personally known cases of non Catholics saved in invincible ignorance.He understands.
The SSPX today needs to do the same with reference to Vatican Council II and EENS. Perhaps they can also get a statement on this issue, from Cardinal Raymond Burke.-Lionel Andrades
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