Monday, May 22, 2023
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Vatican made an objective mistake in the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston (LOHO). The CDF is not Magisterial on this issue. Catholics must avoid the error.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF),
Vatican made an objective mistake in the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to the
Archbishop of Boston (LOHO). The CDF is not Magisterial on this issue.
Catholics must avoid the error. An apology is needed from the CDF.
Catholics are not obliged to follow the 1949 LOHO
which is referenced in Vatican Council II and inserted in the Denzinger.
The CDF needs to ssue a clarification also on the initial
excommunication of Fr. Leonard Feeney in Boston. The Boston Heresy Case, we now
know, refers to the public heresy of the Pope Pius XII, Cardinal Richard
Cushing the Archbishop of Boston, the American Jesuits and the Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican.
The 1949 LOHO assumed that invisible cases of the
baptism of desire(BOD) and being saved in invincible ignorance(I.I) are visible
exceptions for the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS).So the LOHO says
that not everyone needs to enter the Catholic Church for salvation. The Fourth
Lateran Council (1215) and the Council of Florence (1442) which defined the
dogma EENS says everyone must enter the Church, Jesus’ Mystical Body, for salvation.
These Councils do not mention any exceptions.
For Fr. Leonard Feeney there were no visible cases of
the baptism of desire. It does not exist in our human reality. So the BOD was
never an exception for the traditional strict interpretation of EENS.
But Pope Pius XII did not defend Fr. Leonard Feeney
and neither did Pope John XXIII. This was after World War II and the creation
of the new state of Israel.
FACTUAL MISTAKE IN LOHO
The CDF (Holy Office) ignored this factual mistake in
the LOHO and approved a political excommunication of Fr. Leonard Feeney. It is
a fact of life that we cannot see or meet people saved outside the Church,
without Catholic faith and the baptism of water.
The CDF implies that we can see such cases. In other
words invisible cases are visible. Of course, if the CDF stated that BOD and
I.I refers to invisible cases, they would be affirming Feeneyite, traditional
EENS.
PRINCIPLE OF NON CONTRADICTION VIOLATED
But now there is a violation of the Principle of Non
Contradiction of Aristotle. How can we see people in Heaven and on earth at the
same time? And then how can we wrongly produce a New Theology which says
outside the Catholic Church there is salvation; there is known salvation in
visible cases on earth. How could the CDF slander and condemn Fr. Leonard
Feeney for being rational and traditional?
Pope Paul VI, lifted the excommunication of the Jesuit
priest, without him having to recant, but ignored the CDF mistake in the LOHO.
He also condoned the same heresy at Vatican Council II (1965).The Council
approved the LOHO. This was not inspired by the Holy Spirit.
The Council Fathers (1965) assumed that invisible
cases of being saved in invincible ignorance were exceptions for EENS. So it says
only those who know about Jesus and the Church (who are not in invincible
ignorance) are oriented to Hell. But the Church Councils (1215, 1442) referred
to all in general and not just those who know. It includes those who know and yet do not enter.
So in Lumen Gentium 14 there is confusion and there is
a new doctrine created by interpreting being saved in invincible ignorance,
irrationally i.e. what is invisible is confused as being visible.
However we can avoid this mistake by observing that LG
16 (I.I) and LG 14 (BOD) are hypothetical cases only and so do not contradict
Feeneyite EENS. LG 8, LG 14, LG 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc are not exceptions
for EENS as defined by the two Church Councils in the 13th and 15th
century.
So today we are back to the old exclusivist
ecclesiology, with Vatican Council II re-interpreted rationally. The LOHO is not
Magisterial I repeat, since the Holy Spirit cannot make an objective mistake. The Holy Spirit will not contradict the dogma EENS, defined infallibly by Church Councils.
POPE JOHN PAUL II REPEATED THE MISTAKE IN THE ARCHBISHOP LEFEBVRE CASE
Pope John Paul II made the same mistake as Pope Pius
XII. He also wrongly excommunicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who did not
accept Vatican Council II interpreted irrationally. He refused to accept the
break with Tradition, which was approved by the popes. But Archbishop Lefebvre
did not correct the mistake in the LOHO and neither did the SSPX bishops.
Fr. Francois Laisney wrote the book , 'Is Feeneyism Catholic?, which was published by the Angelus Press of the SSPX.It ignores the mistake in the LOHO .
The SSPX and the CDF still interpret the 1949 LOHO with the New Theology, confusing what is invisible as being visible.They use this irrationality to interpret Vatican Council II. It is the theological basis for the the New Ecumenism, New Ecclesiology, New Evangelisation etc, which all have their foundation in the same error.
CATHOLICS ARE BEING TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT VATICAN COUNCIL II
Catholics are not being told to interpret the Council only rationally in harmony with the past ecclesiocentrism of the Catholic Church.The Council is not a break with Tradition.
We are back to the undestanding of Church according to the St. Francis of Assisi, St. Bonaventure, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Catherine of Siena, St.Teresa of Avila, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, St. Maximillian Kolbe...
The Church is once again one, holy, Catholics and Apostolic since we no more have two interpretations of the Creeds, Councils, Catechisms and Vatican Council II.
The traditional-liberal division ends.Since liberalism cannot exist with Vatican Council II interpreted rationally. There is no more a development of doctrine since outside the Church there is no known salvation.
The St. Benedict Center, Richmond,New Hampshire,USA were correct on EENS.They are now correct on Vatican Council II.Fr. Leonard Feeney and the St. Benedict Center of his time were correct and the CDF was wrong. - Lionel Andrades
Sister Maria Philomena micm celebrates 25 years of religious life with the community Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.She is the Director of the St. Augustine Institute of Wisdom and the Sub-Prioress of the religious community, at the Sr. Benedict Center, Richmond, New Hampshire, USA.
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