eucharistandmission: Bishop Robert Barron interprets Vatican Council II irrationally and this would be unethical even by secular standards in California

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Bishop Robert Barron interprets Vatican Council II irrationally and this would be unethical even by secular standards in California

Bishop Robert Barron interprets Vatican Council II irrationally and this would be unethical even by secular standards in California.He refers to LG 16, UR 3 etc as exceptions to the Syllabus of Errors and the Catechism of Pope Pius X. There is a rupture with Tradition for him. So he implies that there are objective cases of non Catholics saved outside the Church as if he can see them on Heaven, there without faith and the baptism of water.

For me LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc refer to hypothetical cases only. They can only be invisible and speculative. They are no exceptioins to the Catechism of Pope Pius X when it says the following:-

24 Q. To be saved, is it enough to be any sort of member of the Catholic Church?
A. No, to be saved it is not enough to be any sort of member of the Catholic Church; it is necessary to be a living member.

27 Q. Can one be saved outside the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church?
A. No, no one can be saved outside the Catholic, Apostolic Roman Church, just as no one could be saved from the flood outside the Ark of Noah, which was a figure of the Church.-Catechism of Pope Pius X

But for Bishop Barron, LG 8,LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, Gs 22 etc would be exceptions to 24 Q abd 27 Q of the Catechism of Pope Pius X.It would be the same for Pope Benedict and Cardinal Luiz Ladaria.

It is the same Vatican Council II before us, we both accept the Council but he interprets LG 8 etc as referring to physically visible non Catholics saved outside the Church and for they are only hypothetical cases. They can only be hypothetical cases for us human beings. Always hypothetical.

So Bishop Robert Barron's reasoning is irrational and deceptive. Without the false premise and inference he cannot project Vatican Council II as a rupture with Tradition.

I have written about this before and e-mailed him over the years. He still continues with the deception. This is unethical even by secular standards in the USA.

There should be a moratorum on the books being published by Bishop Barron until he corrects this error.

Now Bishop Barron wants the bishops to continue to maintain the irrational interpretation of the Council in the universities and on social media. He wants the mandatum to be given to only those who use a false premise and inference to interpret Vatican Council II unethically.1

Presently the Ex Corde Ecclesiae is only given to those universities which interpret Vatican Council II as a rupture with the Syllabus of Errors, Athanasius Creed etc.-Lionel Andrades

Bishop Barron said he believes the bishops should consider exercising their authority in the digital sphere “just as John Paul II, in Ex Corde Ecclesiae, called for the bishops to exercise greater supervision of universities operating under the aegis of the Church.”

“There are, to be blunt, a disconcerting number of such people on social media who are trading in hateful, divisive speech, often deeply at odds with the theology of the Church and who are, sadly, having a powerful impact on the people of God,” he said.

“I do think that the shepherds of the Church, those entrusted with supervising the teaching office, can and should point out when people on social media are harming the Body of Christ.”

Bishop Barron suggested that it may be time for bishops “to introduce something like a mandatum for those who claim to teach the Catholic faith online, whereby a bishop affirms that the person is teaching within the full communion of the Church.”

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/catholics-reflect-on-10-years-of-the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-social-media