A New Discovery : Pope Francis, the CDF has only to announce that LG 8, LG 14. LG 16. UR 3. NA 2, GS 22 etc refer to hypothetical and invisible cases in 2023. Things then fall into place. The Church returns to Tradition.

A New Discovery: Pope Francis and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, have  only to announce that LG 8, LG 14. LG 16. UR 3. NA 2, GS 22 etc refer to hypothetical and invisible cases in 2023. Things then fall into place. The Church returns to Tradition. The pope  reverses the mistake of the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston. It is the end of the New Theology and a return to the past ecclesiocentrism of the Church. This is a new discovery in the Church but a return to Tradition. Millions of people did not know this as they discussed Vatican Council II over 60 years.

All the arguments of collegiality, religious liberty, interpret religious dialogue and ecumenism have ended since the Council supports traditional extra ecclesiam nulla salus with Ad Gentes 7 and Lumen Gentium 14 while LG 8, UR 3, NA 2 GS 22 etc are not practical exceptions for Ad Gentes 7 and Lumen Gentium 14 or Feeneyite  EENS. So there is no change in the ecclesiology of the Catholic Church before and after Vatican Council II.

Within AG 7 and LG 14 the reference to hypothetical cases of the baptism of desire and beings saved in invincible ignorance do not contradict the orthodox passages which support the past exclusivist ecclesiology.

There is now nothing in the Council-text to contradict the Athanasius Creed (exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church) and the Syllabus of Errors (an ecumenism of return to the Catholic Church).

So we can affirm Feeneyite EENS and hypothetical and implicit cases of the baptism of desire (LG 14).

We now have St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, St. Anthont Marie Claret and the popes over the centuries affirming the ‘strict interpretation  of EENS while referring to BOD and I.I as not being exceptions for EENS. We do not have to reject the ecclesiology of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Bonaventure or St. Ignatius of Loyola or St. Francis Xavier.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith(CDF), Vatican, has only to announce that LG 8, LG 14, LG 16 etc always refer to hypothetical cases only. That’s all.- Lionel Andrades