Defending the Faith

 

Catholics groups coming to defend the churches do not seem part of the culture in Rome. But Muslims use their cell phones to call for ‘reinforcements’ at Mass in church. In this way they enforce Islamic Sharia teachings in the city.In general they have no problems with Catholics who interpet Vatican Council II irrationally. Since they are saying like the popes from Pius XII that outside the Church there is known salvation. Visible salvation. LG 8, LG 14, LG 16 et refer to physically visible non Catholics saved without Catholic faith and the baptism of water (AG 7, LG 14).This was the mistake in the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office.It brought in liberalism. These Catholics are saying that Islamism is also a path to salvation and Muslims and other religionists do not need to convert. This is ‘submission theology’. These Catholics are considered ‘dimmis’ by the Muslims here. There is no war with them.

But those Catholics who interpret Vatican Council II rationally are in harmony with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus ( outside the Church there is no salvation).They are saying that LG 8, 14 and 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc , refer to invisible cases in 2023. They are not objective examples of salvation outside the Church. The 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston made a mistake. So outside the Church there is no salvation is still the teaching of the Catholic Church today (AG 7, LG 14, CCC 845, 846, 1257 etc).Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Notification on the Jesuit priest Fr. Jacques Dupuis sj, have said that other religions are not paths to salvation.Their members are oriented to the Catholic Church. This is the old theology of the Church which is not contradicted by Vatican Council II interpreted rationally (LG 16 refers to an invisible person).

When Catholics interpret Vatican Council II rationally they naturally become traditionalists, they go back to Tradition. The Catholic Church says today in Vatican Council II and the Catechisms that in Heaven there are only Catholics.

The Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, the Bible tells us.1 Outside the Church there is no salvation has been the teaching of the Church since the time of the Apostles. It was there in the Patristic and Medieval period. It is based upon John 3:5 and Mark 16:16.-Lionel Andrades

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The Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/teachings/catholic-church-is-the-mystical-body-of-christ-89