Catholics must appeal to the Synod voters to interpret Vatican Council II only rationally and ask Pope Francis and the cardinals and bishops to do the same.

 

Catholics must appeal to the Synod voters to interpret Vatican Council II only rationally and ask Pope Francis and the cardinals and bishops to do the same. It is dishonest to interpret LG 8,14,15,16,UR 3, NA 2, GS etc, as referring to physically visible cases in 1965-2023, who are saved outside the Church; without Catholic faith and the baptism of water. This is irrational. Such cases are outside our human reality and would only be known to God.

So the liberalism of the Synod 2023 is obsolete. It has no theological foundation in Vatican Council II when LG 8, LG 14, LG 15, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, Gs 22 etc, refer to physically invisible cases, always.

The baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance never ever were exceptions for Feeneyite EENS. The 1949 Letter of the Holy Office (CDF/DDF) to the Archbishop of Boston with reference to Fr. Leonard Feeney made an objective mistake. It confused what was not there as being there. Then it   created a new theology which says outside the Church there is known salvation, there is visible salvation.

So when Pope Francis chooses to interpret Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church rationally ( LG 16 is an invisible case in 2023),then cardinals Sean O’Malley, Robert McEnroe, Blaise Cupich, Gerhard Muller and all the USCCB bishops must do the same.-Lionel Andrades