Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Jesuit Gregorian university does not inform foreign students about Vatican Council II

The Jesuit Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome has Cardinal Bea Center for the Study of Judaism.Half of the center's professors are Jews and there are students from Israel who also study here according to La Gregoriana(May 2018).
But these students and professors do not know that Lumen Gentium and Nostra Aetate do not contradict the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church.This was, as it was known to the Jesuits in 1551 when the university was established.
The university faculty do not tell the students from Israel and other foreign students,that Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II supports the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX  and the Catechism of Pope Pius X.So there is no change in the Catholic Church's teaching on mission, salvation,ecclesiology etc.This is the Conciliar Church.
The Catholic Church's understanding of itself since 1551 at this university,is supported by Vatican Council II, which is referred to in most articles of the May 2018 issue of La Gregoriana.
This is possibly not known to the Rector of the University Nuno da Silva Goncalves s.j and Prof. Etienne Veto, the Director of the Cardinal Bea Center for Judaic Studies.
The Gregorian magazine states in English, 'there are Israeli students who come to explore Christianity in depth'.A representative of the Chief Rabbi of Rome, the magazine mentions, is a member of the Center's Council.
But for all of them, the faculty, projects Lumen Gentium, as an exception to the traditional exclusivist ecclesiology.
So the understanding of salvation( soteriology) of the 16th century Magisterium and Jesuit missionaries is made obsolete now, by the Center,  even though it is supported by Vatican Council II. Ad Gentes 7 says all need faith and baptism for salvation and LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, GS 22 ,NA 2 etc are theoretical cases only. Speculative possibilities only. They are not practical exception s to Ad Gentes 7. They are not literal cases of LG 8 etc in 2019.
If the faculty knowingly rejects this rational interpretation of Vatican Council II which is in harmony with Catholic Tradition, it would be unethical.Academically it would not be honest.-Lionel Andrades 

 https://www.unigre.it/en/ua/centres/cardinal-bea-for-judaic-studies/programs-and-courses/

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