Monday, September 9, 2019
Bishop Frank J. Caggiano at the Catholic Answers Conference this month will officially support irrationality and heresy and the common schism
Bishop Frank J. Caggiano at the Catholic Answers Conference this month will officially support irrationality and heresy and the common schism with the past popes.He is supported by the Left, the USCCB and the CDF.He will acknowledge this charge.He will not deny it. Since if he denied it he would have to affirm Feeneyite extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) and this would be Anti Semitic etc, for the non Christians who control theology in the Catholic Church.
For me Lumen Gentium 8 etc would refer to invisible and personally unknown non Catholics saved outside the Church in Sept 2019.For him it is the opposite.LG 8 is an exception to EENS. So it is a known non Catholic who is saved without faith and baptism(AG 7,LG 14). It is not someone invisible. This is the wrong reasoning of the popes from Paul VI to Francis.The schismatic popes.
This is the official philosophy and theology of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA.
Instead the Diocese of Bridgeport must let Catholics know that they can interpret magisterial documents with Feeneyism or Cushingism and Cushingism is irrational.
Feeneyism: It is the old theology and philosophical reaoning which says there are no known
exceptions past or present, to the dogma EENS.There are no explicit
cases to contradict the traditional interpretation of EENS.
Cushingism: It
is the new theology and philosophical reasoning, which assumes there
are known exceptions, past and present, to the dogma EENS, on the need
for all to formally enter the Church.It assumes that the baptism of
desire etc are not hypothetical but objectively known.In principle
hypothetical cases are objective in the present times.
The Diocese
of Bridgeport must let school children know that they can interpret the
Catechism of the Catholic Church with Feeneyism or Cushingism.It does
not have to be only Cushingism, which is now obligatory in the diocese.
Catholic
school children in religion/catechism classes must be told that the
Catechism of the Catholic Church and Vatican Council II can be
interpreted with Cushingism( as is being done now) or Feeneyism and the conclusion would be different.
In the diocese it is the bishop who needs to
interpret the Catechism of the Catholic Church with Feeneyism and then
the lay people can do the same in their study groups.
In
these terms defined which follow, the diocese needs to choose Feeneyism
for the interpretation of magisterial documents including the Catechism
of the Catholic Church and Vatican Council II.
Baptism of Desire (Feeneyite): It refers to the hypothetical case of an unknown catechumen who desires the baptism of water but dies before he receives it and is saved. Since this is an invisible case in our reality it is not relevant to the dogma EENS.
Baptism of Desire (Cushingite): It
refers to the known case of a catechumen who desires the baptism of
water but dies before he receives it and is saved. Since this is a
visible case or the SSPX it is relevant to the dogma EENS.
Invincible Ignorance ( Feeneyite): This
refers to the hypothetical case of someone allegedly saved without the
baptism of water in the Catholic Church, since he was in ignorance.
Invincible Ignorance (Cushingite): This
refers to the explicit case of someone allegedly saved without the
baptism of water in the Catholic Church, since he was in ignorance.Since
it is an exception to the dogma EENS it is assumed to be objectively
known in particular cases.This reasoning is irrational.
Council of Florence: One
of the three Councils which defined the dogma EENS.It did not mention
any exceptions.It did not mention the baptism of desire. It was Feeneyite.
Liberal theologians: They
reinterpreted the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible
ignorance, as objective cases, known in the present times.They use Cushingism.
Vatican Council II (Cushingite): It refers to the interpretation of Vatican Council II with Cushingism.LG 16, LG 8, UR 3, NA 2 etc refer not to hypothetical but known cases in the present times. So Vatican Council II emerges as a break with the dogma EENS.
Vatican Council II (Feeneyite): It refers to the interpretation of Vatican Council II with Feeneyism.LG 16, LG 8, UR 3, NA 2 etc refer to hypothetical cases, which are unknown personally in
the present times.So Vatican Council II is not a break with EENS, the
Syllabus of Errors, ecumenism of return, the Nicene Creed (
Feeneyite-one baptism),the teaching on the Social Reign of Christ the
King over all political legislation and the non separation of Church and
State( since all need to convert into the Church to avoid Hell).
Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston: It
assumed hypothetical cases were defacto known in the present times. So
it presented the baptism of desire etc as an explicit exception, to the
traditional interpretation of the dogma EENS.It censured Fr.Leonard
Feeney and the St.Benedict Center.Since they did not assume that the
baptism of desire referred to a visible instead of invisible case.The
Letter made the baptism of desire etc relevant to EENs.From the second
part of this Letter has emerged the New Theology.It was Cushingite.
Letter of the Holy Office 1949 ( Feeneyite). It means accepting the Letter as Feeneyite based on the first part,only .It supports Fr. Leonard Feeney of Boston.The traditional interpretatiion of the dogma EENS does not mention any exceptions.
Letter of the Holy Office ( Cushingite). It
is based on the second part of the Letter.It rejects the traditional
interpretation of EENS. Since it considers the baptism of desire (
Cushingite-explicit) and being saved in invincible ignorance (
Cushingite-explicit cases) as being exceptions to EENS ( Feeneyite).It
worngly assumes hypothetical cases are objectively visible and so they
are exceptions to the first part of the Letter.
Baltimore Catechism: It
assumed that the desire for the baptism of an unknown catechumen, who
dies before receiving it and was saved, was a baptism like the baptism
of water. So it was placed in the Baptism Section of the catechism. In
other words it was wrongly assumed that the baptism of desire is visible
and repeatable like the baptism of water or that we can administer it
like the baptism of water.The Baltimore Catechism is accepted with the confusion.It can be interpreted with Cushingism or Feeneyism.
Catechism of Pope X: It followed the Baltimore Catechism and placed the baptism of desire in the Baptism Section.It can be interpreted with Cushingism or Feeneyism.
Nicene Creed ( Cushingite) ; It
says 'I believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins' and means
there are more than three known baptisms. They are water, blood, desire,
seeds of the Word etc.This is a Cushingite interpretation.
Nicene Creed ( Feeneyite): It says 'I believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and means there is one known baptism the baptism of water.It is Feeneyite.
New Theology: It
refers to the new theology in the Catholic Church based on hypothetical
cases being objective in the present times.So it eliminates the dogma
EENS.With the dogma EENS made obsolete the ecclesiology of the Church
changes. There is a new ecclesiology which is a break with
Tradition.It's basis is Cushingism.
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus ( Cushingite): .It
refers to the dogma but with exceptions.All do not need to defacto
convert into the Church in the present times, since there are
exceptions.
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus ( Feeneyite): It refers
to the dogma as it was interpreted over the centuries.There are no
known exceptions to all needing to formally enter the Church, with faith
and baptism, to avoid Hell.
Catechism of the Catholic Church ( Cushingite): CCC
1257 contradicts the Principle of Non Contraduction. Also CCC 848 is
based on the new theology and so is a rupture with the dogma EENS(
Feeneyite).
Catechism of the Catholic Church ( Feeneyite): CCC
1257 does not contradict the Principle of Non Contradiction since there
are no known exceptions to all needing the baptism of water for
salvation. There are no known exceptions, since God is not limited to
the Sacraments.
When
CCC 846 states all who are saved are saved through Jesus and the
Church,CCC 846 does not contradict the dogmatic teaching on all needin
to formally enter the Church. CCC 846 does not contradict Ad Gentes 7
which states all need faith and baptism for salvation.
Council of Trent : A Feeneyite does
not separate the baptism of water from the baptism of desire.The
baptism of desire will be followed by the baptism of water.
Council of Trent : A Cushingite separates the baptism of water from the baptism of desire. The baptism of desire excludes the baptism of water.
CANON LAW
CANON LAW
Bishop
Caggiano and his Curia in the diocese are in heresy and schism and
Canon Law must apply to them. They administer the Sacraments in
sacrilege and need to rectify the scandal in public.They have been
informed about this in the past.So they know.
1.They have rejected the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS)
by deceptively assuming unknown cases of the baptism of desire(BOD),
baptism of blood(BOB) and being saved in invincible ignorance)I.I) are
known exceptions in the present times (1965-2019), to the dogma EENS. So
the de fide teaching on EENS approved by three Church Councils
is obsolete for them.This is heresy.It is also schism with the past
popes on EENS.They also reject Vatican Council II(AG 7) which supports
the strict interpretation of EENS, when LG 8, LG 16, UR 3 etc are
interpreted as being only hypothetical cases.
3.Since
BOD,BOB and I.I are literal exceptions to EENS for those holding
juridical officies according to Canon Law in the diocese,
they have also rejected the Athanasius Creed which says outside the
Church there is no salvation.According to Canon Law this is a violation
and an offence.Eligibility for the juridical position ends.A juridical
person must affirm all the teachings of the Catholic Church.So in the
diocese of Bridgeport like the diocese of Madison, and other U.S dioceses, they need to resign or end the scandal.
4.Since
BOD,BOB and I.I are exceptions to EENS, implying outside the Church
there is known salvation, for the Rectors, Superiors, Curia officials,
Canonists, Catechists and school principals, they interpret all the
Catechisms and Vatican Council II irrationally.This is done even when a rational option exists and they have been informed . So
the Catechisms and Vatican Council II for them, are not in harmony with
the strict interpretation of EENS, as it was known to the Magisterium
in the 16th century. There is also a rupture with the past
ecclesiology, which held that salvation is exclusive and all need to be
members of the Catholic Church to avoid Hell.It is a rupture with the
Syllabus of Errors, on an ecumenism of return since now there is known
salvation outside the Church.There is a break with traditional Mission,
based on no known salvation outside the Church.The family and marriages
are hit since now inter-faith marriages are possible since there is
alleged known salvation outside the Church.A non Catholic spouse it is
assumed will be saved .
The bishop and the juridical persons in the diocese commit a
mortal sin of faith.They must end the scandal in public before they
administer the Sacraments and offer Holy Mass.
FALSE ECCLESIOLOGY AND FALSE CHRISTOLOGY
FALSE ECCLESIOLOGY AND FALSE CHRISTOLOGY
There
are no known exceptions to their false ecclesiology and also there are
no known exceptions to traditional Christology and salvation theology.
We
do not know of any one saved by Jesus outside the visible boundaries of
the Catholic Church.Similarly if someone theoretically, hypothetically,
for them, is assumed to be saved outside the Church it would really
only be known to God.For us humans there is no extraordinary means of
salvation. The ordinary means of salvation is faith and baptism in the
Catholic Church(AG 7,LG 14).
September 9, 2019
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
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-bishop-of-bridgeport-connecticut.html
What Saints Said About Hell
What Saints Said About Hell
‘Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them: Strive to
enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter,
and shall not be able.’
Luke 13:23-24
‘For many are called, but few chosen.’
Mark 20:16
‘Behold how many there are who are called, and how few who are
chosen! And behold, if you have no care for yourself, your perdition is
more certain than your amendment, especially since the way that leads to
eternal life is so narrow.’
St. John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church
‘The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be
saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those
few I wish to be!’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with
them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried
into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.’
Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘If you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the
fewest of the few. Do not follow the majority of mankind, but follow
those who renounce the world and never relax their efforts day or night
so that they may attain everlasting blessedness.’
St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church
‘A multitude of souls fall into the depths of Hell, and it is of the
faith that all who die in mortal sin are condemned for ever and ever.
According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How
many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned!
For, as their lives have been, so also will be their end.’
St. Anthony Mary Claret
‘For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the
people, as though a few olives that remain should be shaken out of the
olive tree, or grapes when the vintage is ended.’
Isaias 24:13
‘Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many,
if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far
larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.’
St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but
to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads
to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine
commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make
straight the way of the Lord.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘The number of the elect is so small – so small – that were we to
know how small it is, we should faint away with grief. The number of the
elect is so small that were God to assemble them together, He would cry
to them, as He did of old, by the mouth of His prophet, “Gather
yourselves together, one by one” – one from this province, one from that
kingdom.’
St. Louis Marie de Montfort
‘Our chronicles relate an even more dreadful happening. One of our
brothers, well-known for his doctrine and holiness, was preaching in
Germany. He represented the ugliness of the sin of impurity so forceful
that a woman fell dead of sorrow in front of everyone. Then, coming back
to life, she said, “When I was presented before the Tribunal of God,
sixty thousand people arrived at the same time from all parts of the
world; out of that number, three were saved by going to Purgatory, and
all the rest were damned.’
St. Leonard of Port Maurice
‘That those who walk in the way of salvation are the smaller number
is due to the vice and depraved habits imbibed in youth and nourished in
childhood. By these means Lucifer has hurled into Hell so great a
number of souls, and continues thus to hurl them into Hell every day,
casting so many nations from abyss to abyss of darkness and errors, such
as are contained in the heresies and false sects of the infidels.’
Ven. Mary of Agreda
‘We owe God a deep regret of gratitude for the purely gratuitous gift
of the true faith with which he has favored us. How many are the
infidels, heretics and schismatic who do not enjoy comparable happiness?
The earth is full of them and they are all lost!’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘I exhort you, therefore, not to faint in your afflictions, but to be
revived by God’s love, and to add daily to your zeal, knowing that in
you ought to be preserved that remnant of true religion which the Lord
will find when He comes on the earth. Even if bishops are driven from
their Churches, be not dismayed. If traitors have arisen from among the
very clergy themselves, let not this undermine your confidence in God.
We are saved not by names, but by mind and purpose, and genuine love
toward our Creator. Bethink you how in the attack against our Lord, high
priests and scribes and elders devised the plot, and how few of the
people were found really receiving the word. Remember that it is not the
multitude who are being saved, but the elect of God. Be not then
affrighted at the great multitude of the people who are carried hither
and thither by winds like the waters of the sea. If but one be saved,
like Lot at Sodom, he ought to abide in right judgment, keeping his hope
in Christ unshaken, for the Lord will not forsake His holy ones. Salute
all the brethren in Christ from me. Pray earnestly for my miserable
soul.’
St. Basil the Great, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘Nor should we think that it is enough for salvation that we are no
worse off than the mass of the careless and indifferent, or that in our
faith we are, like so many others, uninstructed.’
St. Bede the Venerable, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘As a man lives, so shall he die.’
St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘Meditate on the horrors of Hell which will last for eternity because
of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who
are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are
that are saved.’
St. Benedict Joseph Labre
‘A great number of Christians are lost.’
St. Leonard of Port Maurice
‘Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication,
impurity, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities,
contentions, emulations, wraths, acts of selfishness, dissensions,
sects, envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the
which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such
things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.’
Galatians 5:19-21
‘The greater part of men choose to be damned rather than to love Almighty God.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.’
St. Benedict Joseph Labre
‘The Lord called the world a “field” and all the faithful who draw
near to him “wheat.” All through the field, and around the
threshing-floor, there is both wheat and chaff. But the greater part is
chaff; the lesser part is wheat, for which is prepared a barn not a
fire. . . The good also are many, but in comparison with the wicked the
good are few. Many are the grains of wheat, but compared with the chaff,
the grains are few.’
St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘What do you think? How many of the inhabitants of this city may
perhaps be saved? What I am about to tell you is very terrible, yet I
will not conceal it from you. Out of this thickly populated city with
its thousands of inhabitants not one hundred people will be saved. I
even doubt whether there will be as many as that!’
St. John Chrysostom, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘All persons desire to be saved, but the greater part, because they
will not adopt the means of being saved, fall into sin and are lost. . .
In fact, the Elect are much fewer than the damned, for the reprobate
are much more numerous than the Elect.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we
do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these
days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the
approach of winter.’
St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars, Patron Saint of Parish Priests
‘And it shall be as when a man gathers in the harvest which remains. .
. And the fruit thereof that shall be left shall be as a single cluster
of grapes; and as the shaking of the olive tree: two or three berries
on the top of the bough, of four or five on the top of the tree, says
the Lord, the God of Israel.’
Isaias 17:5-6
‘O Jesus! . . . Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when,
contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those
who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see
at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned
for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless,
lost, and unfortunate sinners.’
St. Bridget of Sweden
‘Nothing afflicts the heart of Jesus so much as to see all His sufferings of no avail to so many.’
St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars, Patron Saint of Parish Priests
‘With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.’
St. Regimius of Rheims
‘God, observes a certain author, wishes to be served by his priests
with the fervor with which the seraphim serve him in heaven; otherwise
he will withdraw his graces and permit them to sleep in tepidity, and
thence to fall, first into the precipice of sin and afterwards into
hell.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘Christ’s flock is called “little” (Luke 12:32) in comparison with the greater number of the reprobates.’
St. Bede the Venerable, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.’
Ecclesiastes 1:15
‘Ah, how many souls lose Heaven and are cast into Hell!’
St. Francis Xavier
‘To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost,
and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone
can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions,
frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of
keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved;
but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be
saved.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘How many among these uncivilized peoples do not yet know God, and
are sunk in the darkest idolatry, superstition and ignorance! . . . Poor
souls! These are they in whom Christ saw, in all the horror of His
imminent Passion, the uselessness of His agony for so many souls!’
St. Francesca Saverio Cabrini
‘The Ark, which in the midst of the Flood was a symbol of the Church,
was wide below and narrow above; and, at the summit, measured only a
single cubit. . . It was wide where the animals were, narrow where men
lived: for the Holy Church is indeed wide in the number of those who are
carnal minded, narrow in the number of those who are spiritual.’
Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘It is impossible to be saved if we turn away from thee, O Mary.’
St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church
‘Alas, my friend. We cannot be together in Heaven unless we have
begun to live so in this world. Death makes no change in that. As the
tree falls, so shall it lie. . . Jesus Christ said . . . “He that does
not hear the Church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.”
And he also said, “There shall be one fold and one shepherd,” and He
made St. Peter the chief shepherd of His flock. My dear friend, there
are not two ways of serving Jesus Christ. There is only one good way,
and that is to serve Him as He Himself desires to be served.’
St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars, Patron Saint of Parish Priests
‘Cast a look round the world, just observe the manner of living, of
speaking, and you will see immediately whether the evil of sin is known
in the world or whether any attention is paid to it. Not to speak of
those who live decidedly irreligious and wicked lives, how few are those
who pass for good and who approach the sacraments are aware of the
great evil that sin is, and the great ruin it brings with it. It must
necessarily happen that, on account of this certainly culpable ignorance
in which most men live, an enormous number will come to be damned,
because no sin is pardoned which is not detested, and it is impossible
to detest sin properly if it is not known as such.’
St. Joseph Cafasso
‘There are many who arrive at the faith, but few that are led into the heavenly kingdom.’
Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘It is as though Jesus said: “O My Father, I am indeed going to
clothe myself with human flesh, but the greater part of the world will
set no value on my blood!”‘
St. Isidore of Seville, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind
perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a
deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and
out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘But that which brings forth thorns and briers is reprobate, and very near unto a curse, whose end is to be burnt.’
Hebrews 6:8
‘How few the Elect are may be understood from the multitude being cast out.’
St. Hilary of Poitiers, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘And they. . . shall be so few that they shall easily be counted, and a child shall write them down.’
Isaias 10:19
‘Beyond a doubt the elect are few.’
St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘Some will say, It is enough for me to be saved. “No,” says St.
Augustine, “it is not enough; if you say that it is enough, you will be
lost.”‘
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘There are many who arrive at the faith, but few who are led into the
heavenly kingdom. Behold how many are gathered here for today’s
Feast-Day: we fill the church from wall to wall. Yet who knows how few
they are who shall be numbered in that chosen company of the Elect?’
Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘The greater part of men will set no value on the blood of Christ, and will go on offending Him.’
St. Isidore of Seville, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘So many people are going to die, and almost all of them are going to Hell! So many people falling into hell!’
Bl. Jacinta of Fatima
‘He who abuses too much the mercy of God will be abandoned by him.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
“The number of the saved is as few as the number of grapes left after the vinepickers have passed.”
St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars, Patron Saint of Parish Priests
‘They who are to be saved as Saints, and wish to be saved as imperfect souls, shall not be saved.’
Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘Only a small number of souls achieve perfect love.’
St. John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church
‘. . . let us bear in mind that unless we are humble we shall not
only do no good, but we shall not be saved. “Unless you . . . become as
little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” In
order, then, to enter into the kingdom of heaven, we must become
children, not in age, but in humility. St. Gregory says that as pride is
a sign of reprobation, so humility is a mark of predestination.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘It is certain that few are saved.’
St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘Many begin well, but there are few who persevere.’
St. Jerome, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘What is the number of those who love Thee, O God? How few they are!
The Elect are much fewer than the damned! Alas! The greater portion of
mankind lives in sin unto the devil, and not unto Jesus Christ. O
Saviour of the world, I thank Thee for having called and permitted us to
live in the true faith which the Holy Roman Catholic Church teaches. . .
But alas, O my Jesus! How small is the number of those who live in this
holy faith! Oh, God! The greater number of men he buried in the
darkness of infidelity and heresy. Thou hast humbled Thyself to death,
to the death of the cross, for the salvation of men, and these
ungrateful men are unwilling even to know Thee. Ah, I pray Thee, O
omnipotent God, O sovereign and infinite Good, make all men know and
love Thee!’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.’
St. Jerome, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘It is certainly a great happiness for some sinners who after a bad
life are converted at their death, and are saved; but these cases are
very rare: ordinarily he that leads a bad life dies a bad death.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘So that you will better appreciate the meaning of Our Lord’s words,
and perceive more clearly how few the Elect are, note that Christ did
not say that those who walked in the path to Heaven are few in number,
but that there were few who found that narrow way. It is as though the
Saviour intended to say: The path leading to Heaven is so narrow and so
rough, so overgrown, so dark and difficult to discern, that there are
many who never find it their whole life long. And those who do find it
are constantly exposed to the danger of deviating from it, of mistaking
their way, and unwittingly wandering away from it, because it is so
irregular and overgrown.’
St. Jerome, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘I do not speak rashly, but as I feel and think. I do not think that
many bishops are saved, but that those who perish are far more
numerous.’
St. John Chrysostom, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘The Apostle commands us to rejoice, but in the Lord, not in the
world. For, you see, as Scripture says, whoever wishes to be a friend of
this world will be counted as God’s enemy. Just as a man cannot serve
two masters, so too no-one can rejoice both in the world and in the
Lord.’
St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘It is certain that we absolutely require the divine assistance, in
order to overcome temptations. . . Whoever prays obtains this grace; but
whoever prays not, obtains it not, and is lost. And this is more
especially the case with regard to the grace of final perseverance, of
dying in the grace of God, which is the grace absolutely necessary for
our salvation, and without which we should be lost forever. St.
Augustine says of this grace, that God only bestows it on those who
pray. And this is the reason why so few are saved, because few indeed
are mindful to beg of God this grace of perseverance.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘Live with the few if you want to reign with the few.’
St. John Climacus, Father of the Church
‘Do you not perceive how many qualities a priest must have that he
may be strong in his teaching, patient, and hold fast to the faithful
word which is according to doctrine? What care and pains does this
require! Moreover, he is answerable for the sins of others. To pass over
everything else: If but one soul dies without Baptism, does it not
entirely endanger his own salvation? For the loss of one soul is so
great an evil that it is impossible to express it in words. For if the
salvation of that soul was of such value that the Son of God became man
and suffered so much, think of how great a punishment must the losing of
it bring.’
St. John Chrysostom, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘We were so fortunate to be born in the bosom of the Roman Church, in
Christian and Catholic kingdoms, a grace that has not been granted to
the greater part of men, who are born among idolaters, Mohammedans, or
heretics. . . How thankful we ought to be, then, to Jesus Christ for the
gift of faith! What would have become of us if we had been born in
Asia, in Africa, in America, or in the midst of heretics and schismatic?
He who does not believe is lost. He who does not believe shall be
condemned. And thus, probably, we also would have been lost.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘Get out of the filth of the horrible torrent of this world, the
torrent of thorns that is whirling you into the abyss of eternal
perdition. . . This torrent is the world, which resembles an impetuous
torrent, full of garbage and evil odours, making a lot of noise but
flowing swiftly passed, dragging the majority of men into the pit of
perdition.’
St. John Eudes
‘Take care not to resemble the multitude whose knowledge of God’s will only condemns them to more severe punishment.’
St. John of Avila
‘Notwithstanding assurances that God did not create any man for Hell,
and that He wishes all men to be saved, it remains equally true that
only few will be saved; that only few will go to Heaven; and that the
greater part of mankind will be lost forever.’
St. John Neumann
‘Oh how much are the worldlings deceived that rejoice in the time of
weeping, and make their place of imprisonment a palace of pleasure; that
consider the examples of the saints as follies, and their end as
dishonorable; that think to go to Heaven by the wide way that leadeth
only to perdition!’
St. John Southwell
‘The majority of men shall not see God, excepting those who live justly, purified by righteousness and by every other virtue.’
St. Justin Martyr, Father of the Church
‘Look higher still, and see the prelates of the Holy Church, pastors
who have the charge of souls. Is the number of those who are saved among
them greater than the number of those who are damned? Listen to
Cantimpre; he will relate an event to you, and you may draw the
conclusions. There was a synod being held in Paris, and a great number
of prelates and pastors who had the charge of souls were in attendance;
the king and princes also came to add luster to that assembly by their
presence. A famous preacher was invited to preach. While he was
preparing his sermon, a horrible demon appeared to him and said, “Lay
your books aside. If you want to give a sermon that will be useful to
these princes and prelates, content yourself with telling them on our
part, ‘We the princes of darkness thank you, princes, prelates, and
pastors of souls, that due to your negligence, the greater number of the
faithful are damned; also, we are saving a reward for you for this
favor, when you shall be with us in Hell.”‘
St. Leonard of Port Maurice
‘If you wish to imitate the multitude, then you shall not be among the few who shall enter in by the narrow gate.’
St. Augustine, Doctor and Father of the Church
‘Woe to you who command others! If so many are damned by your fault,
what will happen to you? If few out of those who are first in the Church
of God are saved, what will happen to you? Take all states, both sexes,
every condition: husbands, wives, widows, young women, young men,
soldiers, merchants, craftsmen, rich and poor, noble and plebian. What
are we to say about all these people who are living so badly? The
following narrative from Saint Vincent Ferrer will show you what you may
think about it. He relates that an archdeacon in Lyons gave up his
charge and retreated into a desert place to do penance, and that he died
the same day and hour as Saint Bernard. After his death, he appeared to
his bishop and said to him, “Know, Monsignor, that at the very hour I
passed away, thirty-three thousand people also died. Out of this number,
Bernard and myself went up to heaven without delay, three went to
purgatory, and all the others fell into Hell.”‘St. Leonard of Port Maurice
‘I see around me a multitude of those who, blindly persevering in
error, despise the true God; but I am a Christian nevertheless, and I
follow the instruction of the Apostles. If this deserves chastisement,
reward it; for I am determined to suffer every torture rather then
become the slave of the devil. Others may do as they please since they
are. . . reckless of the future life which is to be obtained only by
sufferings. Scripture tells us that “narrow is the way that leads to
life” . . . because it is one of affliction and of persecutions suffered
for the sake of justice; but it is wide enough for those who walk upon
it, because their faith and the hope of an eternal reward make it so for
them. . . On the contrary, the road of vice is in reality narrow, and
it leads to an eternal precipice.’
St. Leo of Patara
‘. . . a greater number is lost through false confidence than through excessive fear.’
Ven. Louis de Granada
‘Do not be deceived; there are only two roads: one that leads to life
and is narrow; the other that leads to death and is wide. There is no
middle way.’
St. Louis Marie de Montfort
‘The great deluge at the time of Noe was the cause why all mankind
perished, with the exception of eight persons who were saved in the Ark.
In our time a deluge, not of water, but of sins, continually inundates
the earth, and few persons escape it, especially among seculars. . .’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘Taking into account the behavior of mankind, only a small part of the human race will be saved.’Lucy of Fatima
‘The majority of souls appear before the Judgment empty-handed. They did nothing good for eternity.’
Ven. Mary of Agreda
‘Work out your salvation in fear and trembling!’
Phil 2:12
‘If the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly sinner appear?’
1 St. Peter 4:18
‘And how very small is the kingdom of Jesus Christ! So many nations have never had the faith!’
St. Peter Julian Eymard
‘So vast a number of miserable souls perish, and so comparatively few are saved!’
St. Philip Neri
‘All infidels and heretics are surely on the way to being lost. What
an obligation we owe God! for causing us to be born not only after the
coming of Jesus Christ, but also in countries where the true faith
reigns! I thank Thee, O Lord, for this. Woe to me if, after so many
transgressions, it had been my fate to live in the midst of infidels or
heretics!’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘Oh, Jesus, Divine Redeemer of souls, behold how great is the
multitude of those who still sleep in the darkness of error! Reckon up
the number of those who stray to the edge of the precipice. Consider the
throngs of the poor, the hungry, the ignorant, and the feeble who groan
in their abandoned condition. Oh Lord, our sins darken our
understanding, and hide from us the blessing of loving Thee as Thou dost
merit. Enlighten our minds with a ray of Thy divine light. Thou art the
Friend, the Redeemer, and the Father of the one who turns penitent to
Thy Sacred Heart. Amen.’
Pope St. Pius X
‘Among adults there are few sa
ved because of sins of the flesh.’
ved because of sins of the flesh.’
St. Regimius of Rheims
‘It is granted to few to recognize the true Church amid the darkness
of so many schisms and heresies, and to fewer still so to love the truth
which they have seen as to fly to its embrace.’
St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church
‘Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God?
Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, Nor the
effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of
God.’
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
‘Yes, indeed, many will be damned; few will be saved.’
St. Benedict Joseph Labre
‘The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying
ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong
is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the
testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle
their footing.’
St. Robert Southwell
‘I fear that Last Day, that day of tribulation and anguish, of
calamity and misery, of mist and darkness, that Day on which, if the
just have reason to fear, how much more should I, an impious, wretched,
and ungrateful sinner!’
Bl. Sebastian Valfre
‘The greater number of men still say to God: Lord we will not serve
Thee; we would rather be slaves of the devil, and condemned to Hell,
than be Thy servants. Alas! The greatest number, my Jesus – we may say
nearly all – not only do not love Thee, but offend Thee and despise
Thee. How many countries there are in which there are scarcely any
Catholics, and all the rest either infidels or heretics! And all of them
are certainly on the way to being lost.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘The number of the damned is incalculable.’
St. Veronica Giuliani
‘Many religious go strait to Hell because they do not keep their vows!’
St. Vincent Ferrer
‘Everyone desires to be saved but the greater part is lost.’
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church
‘Ah! A great many persons live constantly in the state of damnation!’
St. Vincent de Paul
‘Since their eternal happiness, consisting in the vision of God,
exceeds the common state of nature, and especially in so far as this is
deprived of grace through the corruption of original sin, those who are
saved are in the minority. In this especially, however, appears the
mercy of God, that He has chosen some for that salvation, from which
very many in accordance with the common course and tendency of nature
fall short.’
St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church
‘Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in
thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to
life: and few there are that find it!’
Matthew 7:13-14
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/what-saints-said-about-hell
Sun Pulsing At Medjugorje : September 2, 2019, while message given to Mirjana Soldo was read:
https://spiritdailyblog.com/news/sun-pulsing-at-medjugorje
https://www.lalucedimaria.it/medjugorje-sole-pulsa-ultima-apparizione-video/
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.
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/
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
Catholic Answers will have their annual 2019 conference this month and all the speakers will interpret Vatican Council II with a false premise to create a rupture with Tradition. So they admit that the conference will be Christological and not with an ecclesio-centric ecclesiology. They will incorrectly interpret Lumen Gentium as a rupture with Feeneyite EENS and EENS according to the magisterium of the 16th century
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