The Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA and apologists of Catholic Answers at their annual conference in San Diego this month, will knowingly interpret Vatican Council II with an irrational premise; with Cushingite philosophy and theology, to create an artificial rupture with Tradition; the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS),past exclusivist ecclesiology, an ecumenism of return, the Syllabus of Errors, Oath Against Modernism and the Creeds and Catechisms.They will wrongly interpret Lumen Gentium as a rupture with Feeneyite EENS.
Bishop Frank J. Caggiano must know that whatever is his ideological position on Fr. Leonard Feeney of Boston, Lumen Gentium does not contradict the strict interpretation of EENS.
There are no visible cases of non Catholics saved outside the Catholic Church with elements of sanctification and truth (LG 8) or where the Catholic faith subsists outside its alleged visible boundaries(LG 8).
There are no objective examples of non Catholics saved in invincible ignorance(LG 16) or the hypothetical case of the unknown catechumen who seeks the baptism of water but dies before he receives it(LG 14).
Similarly GS 22( good will), Ad Gentes 11 ( seeds of the Word), UR 3( saved in imperfect communion with the Church), NA 2( saved with good and holy things in other religions) etc are not objective examples of salvation outside the Church.They simply are hypothetical and theoretical cases in 2019.They do not exist in our reality.
The Letter of the Holy Office 1949(LOHO) made a factual mistake.The empirical error was repeated by some of the influential Council Fathers at Vatican Council II.
So the speakers at the conference will have to choose how to interpret LG 8,LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc and they have always chosen the irrational option.If they made the rational and traditional choice, assuming LG 8 etc refers to hypothetical cases only, then there would be no hermeneutic of rupture with Tradition.
Doctrines would be in harmony with the Church Fathers and the popes of the Middle Ages.Now for Catholic Answers they are in a rupture.
There is a heretical and schismatic split with the Church Fathers on EENS, since Catholic Answers interprets the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and invincible ignorance(I.I) as referring to non hypothetical and objective people in the present times (1965-2019), saved outside the Catholic Church.This is a factual mistake which the Church Fathers did not make.It is a fact of life that we cannot see or meet any exceptions to EENS.This is a given.
The bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut who serves on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops(USCCB) Committee on Evangelisation and Catechesis, along with the apologist-speakers of Catholic Answers,violate the Principle of Non Contradiction.Someone saved outside the Church, without faith and baptism, cannot be visible in Heaven and on earth, for them to be seen as exceptions to the past exclusive ecclesiology in the Catholic Church.
Whatever is the propaganda on Fr. Leonard Feeney the bottom line still is - Lumen Gentium does not contradict the strict interpretation of EENS. So with Vatican Council II interpreted rationally, the Church still has a superiority and exclusiveness in salvation, as was known to the Church Fathers.-Lionel Andrades
http://www.catholicanswersconference.com/speakers/the-most-reverend-frank-j-caggiano/
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