These 10
points indicate that a future pope will be a conservative and not a liberal. The Catholic Church will return to the past. Rome comes back to the
Faith. There will be a coherence in theology and doctrine.
1.
The pope will have to accept the Fourth Lateran
Council (1215) and the Council of Florence (1442), on extra ecclesiam nulla
salus, since Vatican Council II
interpreted rationally does not contradict them. The two Councils say outside
the Church there is no salvation and do not mention any exceptions. So a pope
can only interpret Vatican Council II rationally. This is ethical. He has to
affirm EENS like the popes over the centuries.In Vatican Council II ( AG 7, LG 14) the Church
is saying, all Protestants and non Christians are oriented to Hell, without
faith and the baptism of water.
2.
The pope has to
interpret Vatican Council II with the red passages which mention the baptism of
desire and being saved in invincible ignorance, not being exceptions for
the blue passages which support the past ecclesiocentrism. The red is not an exception for the blue. In this way there is a
continuity with the past exclusivist ecclesiology. When the red is a rupture with the blue, there is a break with
Tradition.So the pope will have to read the passages in the Council
differently.
3.
The pope will
have to realize that the Boston Heresy Case refers to the heresy of Pope Pius
XII, the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cushing, the Rector of Boston
College and the American Jesuits. It does not refer to
Fr. Leonard Feeney and the St. Benedict Center of that time, as the media
portrays it.
4. There will be no other
choice. The pope will have to re-read LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc
in Vatican Council II as not being exceptions for Feeneyite extra
ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS). The 1949 Letter of the Holy
Office to the Archbishop of Boston relative to Fr. Leonard Feeney made
an objective mistake in the second part of the document. It
contradicts the first part, which affirms traditional EENS. The
second part does this with a false premise and inference.
5. Non Catholics are oriented
to Hell according to Vatican Council II (rational), interpreted with the
rational premise and inference. They are oriented to Hell because of original
sin and mortal sins committed in this state, with no access to the Sacraments,
especially that of Confession to a Catholic priest. They need to convert into
the Catholic Church with faith and the baptism of water ( AG 7, LG 14, CCC
845,846 etc).The Catechism of the Catholic Church 847-848 (invincible ignorance)
does not contradict CCC 845-846.This is a new way for a pope to read the
Council. It is a break with the popes from Paul VI;
6. The Catechism of the
Catholic Church (CCC 847-848- invincible ignorance) does not contradict CCC
845-846. It also does not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla
salus and the Athanasius Creed.So this is a different way of reading
all the Catechisms and Vatican Council II.This is not the political way the Bishops Conferences today interpret Vatican
Council II. In the future the Bishops Conferences will have to interpret
Vatican Council II rationally and so also the cardinals. The pope will have to
do the same.
7.Vatican Council II (
rational) has a hermeneutic of continuity with the Council of Florence 1442 and
Fr. Leonard Feeney and the St. Benedict Center of his time. It does not have
this continuity with Pope Pius XII, the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to
the Archbishop, to Cardinal Richard Cushing and the Jesuits at Boston College.
Neither has it a continuity today, with Cardinal Sean O'Malley and his
Curia. So the popes can no more interpret Vatican Council II dishonestly. They
can no more cite the 1949 LOHO.The books on Vatican Council II based upon the
reasoning of the LOHO are now obsolete.People know they have a rational choice.
8. Fr. Leonard Feeney was
teaching orthodoxy ( Council of Florence 1442 etc) and Pope Pius XII
un-orthodoxy ( visible cases of BOD and I.I) which contradict the Council of
Florence etc.
The Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), was teaching un-orthodoxy (1949 LOHO) and the St.
Benedict Center,in 1949 orthodoxy. Today the CDF teaches the same un-orthodoxy
and the St. Benedict Center, Richmond, New Hampshire, orthodoxy ( Vatican
Council II and EENS are accepted and interpreted rationally). When the CDF
chooses to interpret Vatican Council II rationally and so affirm orthodoxy, the
pope will have to do the same. The pope can no more support political
liberalism in the name of Vatican Council II.
9.The popes have been
interpreting Vatican Council II and EENS according to the Jewish Left (ADL
etc). The St. Benedict Center, NH interprets Vatican Council II and EENS
according to the principles of the Magisterium over the centuries i.e BOD and
I.I are always hypothetical only. The norm for salvation is faith and the
baptism of water. Exceptions are known only to God.Exceptions do not make the
rule etc.The cardinals will have to choose to interpret Vatican Council II and
EENS like Brother Andre Marie micm, the Prior at the St. Benedict Center, NH.
There will not be any other rational and honest choice.
10. For Pope Benedict, Vatican Council II had a
hermeneutic of continuity with Pope Pius XII and the 1949 LOHO. For the St.
Benedict Center, New Hampshire and me, Vatican Council II has a hermeneutic of
continuity with Fr. Leonard Feeney and the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) and
the Council of Florence (1442) and the rest of Tradition.The liberal theology
of Pope Benedict is now obsolete. Catholics know they have a choice.They will
check a pope or cardinal who interprets Vatican Council II dishonestly. -Lionel
Andrades
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