The Diocese of Manchester, USA and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are expected to announce new prohibitions against Catholic religious communities,who refuse to interpret Vatican Council II and extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS), with the red being an exception to the blue.The prohibitions would extend also to the Franciscans of the Immaculate. Yesterday was the last day for the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to renege on the Faith.They have not done so.
There is still no announcement on the website of the Diocese of Manchester.They expect the St. Benedict Center to interpret Vatican Council II and other magisterial documents with the red being an exception to the blue.
The CDF/ Diocese of Manchester demand that all Catholics interpret Vatican Council II with the red being an exception to the blue, to avoid being placed in the not legal category. It's net would include the Franciscans of the Immaculate. Also, Bishop Bernard Fellay, the former Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X and the SSPX participants at the General Chapter meeting in 2012. 1
In his Statement on their Doctrinal Beliefs,2 Brother Andre Marie MICM, Prior of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, St. Benedict Center, New Hamsphire, has affirmed the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, like the Magisterium and missionaries of the 16th century and the Church Fathers. They also mentioned theoretical cases of the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance, which cannot be practical exceptions to the traditional interpretation of EENS.So BOD etc being hypothetical and theoretical is not rejected.However BOD being an exception to EENS would infer that it is a reference to a personally known non Catholic saved outside the Church. This is irrational since we cannot know of any such person.An invisible person cannot be an exception to EENS.Yet this is the official reasoning of the CDF and the present two popes.
Secondly when BOD and I.I is mentioned in Vatican Council II again it is a reference to a hypothetical case. So LG 16, LG 14 etc would not be a reference to an objective exception to 16th -century EENS for Brother Andre Marie.
He has also cited Ad Gentes 7, in his Doctrinal Beliefs. AG 7 says all need faith and baptism for salvation. All need faith and baptism and in real life we do not know any one who will be saved outside the Church since he was ignorant of the Gospel through no fault of his own.
So when LG 14, LG 16 etc are referred to in Vatican Council II they are red passages. They do not contradict the orthodox blue passages which support Feeneyite EENS.
Similarly LG 14, LG 16 being only theoretical would not contradict the dogma EENS or the blue passages in Ad Gentes 7 and Lumen Gentium 14.Like EENS they state that all need faith and baptism,outside the Church there is no salvation.
So for Brother Andre Marie the red is not an exception to the blue.
Even for Mary Ellen Mahon, the Director of Education and Catechesis, in the Diocese of Manchester, the red is not an exception to the blue.
So Mary Ellen Mahon and Brother Andre Marie are saying there are no practical exceptions to EENS and there are none mentioned in Vatican Council II or other magisterial documents.They do not know any one in the diocese saved outside the Church.
For Archbishop Augustine di Noia op, Ad junct Secretary of the CDF, invincible ignorance (CCC 847-848) has to be accepted as an exception to the strict interpretation of EENS. So possibilities are real people for him.They are personally known non Catholics saved outside the Church.He believes he can judge who will go to Heaven even though outside the Church.
So for him the red passages are exceptions to the blue ones.
Similarly for Pope Francis the red passages are exceptions to the blue passages.
For me the red passages are not exceptions to the blue passages. The red is not an exception to the blue. This is something obvious,any one can see it who wants to do so.
The Franciscans of the Immaculate and the SSPX have not received any official notification , however the St. Benedict Center case is expected to apply to them and all Catholic religious communities.
The Diocese of Manchester has not announced its doctrinal and theological position on the salvation issue.It refuses also to answer two questions, which have been repeatedly put to them.
-Lionel Andrades
1
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-congregation-for-doctrine-of-faith.html
2
https://catholicism.org/doctrinal-belief.html
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