Fr.Hadi Daou, the Chaplin and Vice Rector of the Pontifical Maronite College, Rome said that there were no known exceptions to the traditional teaching on the Catholic Church having an exclusiveness in salvation.If any one was saved outside the Catholic Church, he agreed, he or she would only be known to God.
I was talking with him this afternoon at the Pontificial Maronite College, in central Rome.
He agreed that being saved in invincible ignorance was not an exception to the traditional teaching on exclusive salvation, as held by the Maronite saints. Since there were no known exceptions for us human beings. If any one was saved in invincible ignorance, it would only be known to God.
I mentioned this blog and the subject of my work.Like the Maronite saints I hold the traditional interpretation of no salvation outside the Church in accord with Vatican Council II( AG 7) which also says all need faith and baptism for salvation.
The Maronite College in Rome was established by Gregory XIII in 1584. The Maronite missal (Qurbono) was first printed between 1592 and 1594 in Rome.1
Maronite priests are not permitted to get married. In the Maronite Church, married men may become priests; but once you are a priest you cannot marry, they accept the supreme authority of the Bishop of Rome on matters of doctrine.
At the end of the seventeenth century, the Lebanese Maronite and the Maronite Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary constituted a single body, the Lebanese Aleppine Order founded on 10 November 1695 by three young Syrians from Aleppo, Gabriel Hawwa, Abdallah Qara’li and Joseph El-Betn, who had established their residence in the monastery of Our Lady of Qannoubine in the Kadisha valley in northern Lebanon.
In Rome, as early as 1707, the Aleppine Order, obtained from Clement XI the Church of Saints Marcellinus and Peter on the Via Labicana, not least thanks to the success of a mission entrusted by the Pope to Gabriel Hawwa to bring a Coptic bishop back to Roman obedience. Meanwhile, in Lebanon, there was such an influx of young people from Damascus, Jerusalem, Sidon and from many Egyptian cities that it necessitated the move to the larger monastery of Saint Elysées in Becharre and the foundation of other monasteries also outside the country.
The Patriarch Stephen El Douaihy, a strong supporter of the Order, had a decisive hand in redrafting the rule, which had vaguely followed that of Saint Antony Abbot, but had been too leveled down in line with those of the Latin Orders. The Rule was permanently approved on 31 March 1732 by Clement XII.
Deeply attached to rural life, the monks shared its austerity. It was always to these monks that the Patriarch entrusted responsibility for the Lebanese diaspora in Egypt, Europe and the New World. The Maronite Church, totally concentrated in the mountains of Lebanon, owes to them the unwavering attachment of the people to Christianity, the land, and the papacy. And above all the education of peasants and of the poor: village schools often arose in the shadow of the monasteries and parish churches. 2
The Maronite Church in the Middle Ages held the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as did St. Charbel Maklouf, the saint of the Eucharist in the 19th century.
However the Latin Rite Church, after Vatican Council II wrongly projected being saved in invincible ignorance(LG 16)and the baptism of desire(LG 14) etc as being exceptions to the traditional interpretation of no salvation outside the Church.
Liberal theologians, among them Fr. Joseph Ratzinger re-interpreted BOD and I.I as being exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.They accepted the irrationality in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 which was referenced in Vatican Council II.
Liberal theologians, among them Fr. Joseph Ratzinger re-interpreted BOD and I.I as being exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.They accepted the irrationality in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 which was referenced in Vatican Council II.
Today Fr. Hadi confirmed the obvious. He said there are no physical cases of being saved in invincible ignorance etc. So the liberal theologians of the Latin Rite were wrong. Yet their irrational theology, approved by the popes since Paul VI, is being imposed on all Catholics in the different rites.
-Lionel Andrades
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