A clarification needs to be issued by the Vatican

Pope Paul VI interpreted Lumen Gentium as an exception to the Syllabus of Errors and the past ecclesiology and ecumenism of return. Cardinal Ratzinger as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith(CDF) made the same mistake.Cardinal Luiz Ladaria, Prefect of the CDF today  made the same mistake last year at a press conference for Plaquet Deo.If a head of a corporation made this mistake he would resign.The same mistake is made by Pope Francis and his Curia of cardinals.No one asks them to recant or resign.

Pope Benedict and Cardinal Kasper's ecclesiology excludes exclusive salvation since LG 8, LG 14, LG 16 refer to known non Catholics saved outside the Church for them. In this way they project exceptions to Tradition.If they were  unknown and invisible non Catholics they would not be examples of salvation outside the Church. The Syllabus of Errors and the Athanasius Creed  would not be obsolete as it is today.But they are known for them.

Now cardinals and bishops who view invisible people as being visible, confuse subjectivity with objectivity and what is implicit as explicit  violate the Principle of Non Contradiction.They are considered responsible and mature  people on the issues of finance, child protection etc.

A clarification needs to be issued by the Vatican on this issue.They need to inform the German cardinals and bishops, for example, and other bishops' conferences, that Lumen Gentium in its entire text, nowhere contradicts the Syllabus of Errors on ecclesiology and an ecumenism of return. They need to inform the Bishop of Manchester,USA, Bishop Peter Libasci, that the Athanasius Creed which says outside the Church there is no salvation is not obsolete.

Pope Benedict, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Cardinal Mark Ouelett and Archbishop Rino Fisichella need to admit that in their articles on Ecclesiology, on line, they made a mistake. Lumen Gentium 8 is not an exception to the past ecclesiocentric ecclesiology of the Catholic Church. We do not know any one saved outside the Catholic Church.

We do not know any one saved outside the Church with elements of sanctification and truth(LG 8). Neither do we know of any one saved without faith and the baptism of water(LG 14, AG 7) outside the visible Church, where the Catholic Church allegedly subsists(LG 8).

Similarly there are no personally known people saved in invincible ignorance, within or outside the Church(LG 16). Also the case of the hypothetical and unknown catechumen who does before receiving  the baptism of water which  he or she sought, and is allegedly now in Heaven, is still the case of the unknown catechumen(LG 14). So the baptism of desire never ever was an exception to the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church. 


Lumen Gentium could never be the theological basis for a New Ecumenism. Lumen Gentium  was wrongly projected by Cardinal Ratzinger , as supporting a New Theology, New Ecclesiology and New Evangelisation, approved by Pope Francis.For him LG 16 and GS 22 contradicted the past ecclesiology, an ecumenism of return. The Syllabus of Errors and the Athanasius Creed were obsolete for him in a hermeneutic of rupture.-Lionel Andrades