Fr.Benedict Hughes CMRI and Bishop Mark Pivarunas do not deny that they assume unknown cases of BOD, BOB and I.I as being known exceptions to Feneeyite EENS. They also do not deny that they assume hypothetical and theoretical cases referenced in LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, Gs 22 etc as being literal and practical exceptions to EENS. So Vatican Council II is a rupture with Tradition for them and they have chosen sedevacantism.

From Justification and Salvation: What did Fr. Leonard Feeney teach? April 24, 2019 by Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI, Sedevacantist.

The case of Leonard Feeney is a truly tragic one in Church history, but it exemplifies how heresies and false teachings often arise as an excessive or false reaction to another heresy or error they are trying to combat. There is no question that the Church’s dogma of No Salvation Outside the Church (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, or EENS; see Denz. 430) was more and more being effectively undermined and attacked in the 1940s and ’50s, not simply by people outside the Church but also by many within.

Lionel: Denz 430 interprets the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus with Cushingism, i.e a false premise and inference is used to create a rupture with the past ecclesiology and an ecumenism of return.

Unknown cases of the baptism of desire(BOD), baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) are assumed to be personally known examples of salvation outside the Church.So it is implied that there are practical exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.This is irrational, non traditional and innovative.The  conclusion is heretical. The liberals placed the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 in the Denz.430 with this factual and objective error. This is human error and not a treaching of the Holy Spirit.

On the website of the  Congregatio Mariae Reginae Immaculatae (CMRI), the baptism of desire is interpreted with Cushingism.Then it is projected as an exception to traditional EENS. The  popes and saints over the centuries are re-interpreted with the same irrationality.

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 In his 1950 landmark encyclical against the renascent Modernism of his day, Pope Pius XII warned: “Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation” (Encyclical Humani Generis, n. 27). It was this trend that Feeney sought to remedy, but he did so by distorting the Church’s teaching in the opposite direction. In 1947, he began preaching bizarre ideas about justification, salvation, and the necessity of the Church and thus got himself in trouble with the authorities of his order (Jesuits) as well as the diocese in which he was functioning (Archdiocese of Boston).

Lionel : For the Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Richard Cushing, the Jesuit Superior in the USA and the Rector of Boston College, unknown cases of BOD, BOB and I.I had to be said to be personally known and objective examples of salvation outside the Catholic Church. This is irrational but it was accepted at Vatican Council II and the popes from Paul VI to Francis.This was the only way exceptions could be created to exclusive salvation in the Church.

They continue to interpret Vatican Council II as being only Christological even though the Council supports an ecclesiocentric ecclesiology, when it is interpreted rationally i.e unknown cases are simply unknown.

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Another Catholic priest who was conscious of the dire need to counteract the dangerous subversion of EENS but who did so using sound Catholic theology was Mgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, professor of fundamental dogmatic theology at the Catholic University of America and editor of the American Ecclesiastical Review (1943-63). A former student of the legendary Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., Fenton was an expert in the field of ecclesiology. Pope Pius XII recognized Fenton’s theological achievements and bestowed upon him the medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice in 1954. In 1958, Fenton published the magnificent work The Catholic Church and Salvation in the Light of Recent Pronouncements by the Holy See. An assortment of his numerous articles on the Church was recently published as The Church of Christ: A Collection of Essays by Monsignor Joseph C. Fenton.

Lionel: Again we have a Cushingite who interpreted Lumen Gentium as being an exception to the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church. He maintained the tradition of error which was repeated by Cardinal Luiz Ladaria on March 1,2016.

It is based upon Cushingite theology that the Working Paper of the Amazon Synod rejects exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church.

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Alas, despite correction from the Holy Office (Decree Suprema Haec Sacra of Aug. 8, 1949), Feeney persisted in his errors, and in 1953 he was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII ferendae sententiae for grave disobedience, as he obstinately refused to obey the order to appear at the Vatican to explain his doctrine, even under pain of excommunication. (The false pope Paul VI eventually rescinded the excommunication, at least putatively.)

Lionel: For Fr. Leonard Feeney unknown cases of the BOD, BOB and I.I could not be objective exceptions to the dogma EENS. This is common sense. Even a school boy would agree here. We cannot see people in Heaven saved without the baptism of water and Catholic faith. We cannot meet any such person here on earth.So where are the exceptions to traditional EENS in 2019 ?

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But just what strange doctrines did Fr. Feeney teach?

To answer this question, we present an article written by Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI, which was published in The Reign of Mary two years ago. In it, Fr. Benedict presents direct quotations from Feeney’s own 1952 book The Bread of Life and critiques it in light of genuine Catholic doctrine: “My purpose will be to present the teachings of Father Feeney and allow the reader to see how these contradict Church teaching”, the author states.

Lionel: Fr.Benedict Hughes CMRI and Bishop Mark Pivarunas do not deny that they assume unknown cases of BOD, BOB and I.I as being known exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.

They also do not deny that they assume hypothetical and theoretical cases referenced in LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, Gs 22 etc as being literal and practical exceptions to EENS. So Vatican Council II is a rupture with Tradition for them and they have chosen sedevacantism.

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Other resources to help provide clarity with regard to EENS include the new book Contra Crawford, Bp. Donald Sanborn’s Anti-Feeneyite Catechism, our TRADCAST 004, and the web site baptismofdesire.com. A simple slogan by which to remember the orthodox Catholic attitude in the EENS debate would be: “Fenton, not Feeney.”

Lionel: I have written on this issue many times before and there has been no response from Novus Ordo Watch or CMRI.Bishop Donald Sanborn and Fr. Anthony Cekada and the other names mentioned here , like Bishop Pivarunas, and cardinals and bishops in general in the Catholic Church,  assume unknown cases of BOD, BOB and I.I are  known exceptions to Feneeyite EENS.The red is an exception to the blue for them when really is not an exception to the blue.1

They also assume hypothetical and theoretical cases referenced in LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, Gs 22 etc as being literal and practical exceptions to EENS.

So Vatican Council II is only Christological for them and does not support an ecclesiocentric ecclesiology, as it does for me.-Lionel Andrades

https://novusordowatch.org/2019/04/father-leonard-feeney-justification-salvation/



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• Red being an exception to the blue -Vatican Documents (1)
• Red Column (4)
• Red is an exception to the blue-Bologna School/ Fr.John Zuhlsdorf (1)
• Red is not an exception to the blue - Proclamation (2)
• Red is not an exception to the blue - profances Holy Mass (1)
• Red is not an exception to the blue :CCC 846-848 (4)
• Red not an exception to blue mapping (1)