There is a general consensus that President Joseph Biden is interpreting Vatican Council II dishonestly. It means the Archbishop of Washington D.C, USA, Cardinal Wilton Gregory is doing the same. He is unethical when he confuses what is invisible (LG 16 etc) as being visible.

 

There is a general consensus that President Joseph Biden is interpreting Vatican Council II dishonestly. It means the Archbishop of Washington D.C, USA, Cardinal Wilton Gregory is doing the same. He is unethical when he confuses what is invisible (LG 16 etc) as being visible. He does this for political reasons.

If the archbishop interpreted Vatican Council II rationally (LG 16 is invisible in 2024), then he would be a traditionalist, like those who follow the exclusivist ecclesiology of the old Roman Missal. It would be the Latin Mass at Mass in English. It would be the Latin ecclesiology even with the Syro Malabar or Amazon Rite, offered in Washington.

The Catholic Faith of pre-Vatican Council II times can now be proclaimed clearly at the Novus Ordo Mass .Cardinal Gregory is obliged to interpret Vatican Council II only rationally.

Everyone in Washington has to interpret Vatican Council II and the Catechisms with ‘the red not being an exception for the blue’.

Times have changed. The Catholic Church has gone traditional at every rite and liturgy. Every cardinal and bishop has to be traditional since they are obligated to interpret Magisterial Documents only rationally. When Pope Francis interprets Vatican Council II etc irrationally it is not Magisterial. This cannot be the work of the Holy Spirit. Over the centuries the popes interpreted Magisterial Documents only rationally.     - Lionel Andrades

MAY 29, 2024

This was a discovery. It meant Vatican Council II was not a rupture with Tradition.

 

Some 15 years back I discovered that Lumen Gentium 16 (being saved in invincibile ignorance) etc were always hypothetical. So how could they be exceptions for Feeneyite extra ecclesiam nulla salus? This was a discovery. It meant Vatican Council II was not a rupture with Tradition.

-Lionel Andrades

Definition : fake premise, inference and conclusion and the rational premise, inference and conclusion.

 

The common fake premise is – invisible people are physically visible in 2024.

The common fake inference is – there are physically visible non Catholics in 2024 saved outside the Catholic Church without Catholic faith and the baptism of water.

So the conclusion; the expected false conclusion is that Vatican Council II is a rupture with the past ecclesiocentrism of the Church. This is a New Theology in the Church. It says outside the Church there is known salvation.

All this reasoning I call Cushingism. This process of bad reasoning is common among the Cushingite popes, cardinals and bishops.

The rational premise is – invisible people are invisible in 2024. Lumen Gentium 16 etc refer to hypothetical cases only.

The rational inference is – there are no physically visible non Catholics saved outside the Catholic Church in 2024 without Catholic faith and the baptism of water.

The traditional and rational conclusion is that Vatican Council II is not a rupture with the past exclusivist ecclesiology of the Catholic Church. There are no objective exceptions for the Athanasius Creed, the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX, the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus of the Council of Florence (1441), the Catechism of Pope Pius X ( 24Q,27Q ) and the rest of Tradition.We are back to the old theology of the Roman Missal.

I call this reasoning Feeneyism.

Feeneyism and Cushingism, for me, refer to a way of thinking and not the two well known persons, Cardinal Richard Cushing and Fr. Leonard Feeney. 

I interpret the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance with Feeneyism. Cardinal Richard Cushing and the popes from Pius XII interpreted them with Cushingism.

I interpret Vatican Council II with Feeneyism ( invisible cases of Lumen Gentium 16 etc are invisible in 2024). Pope Paul VI and the popes who followed used Cushingism ( invisible cases of Lumen Gentium 14 are physically visible in 1965-2024).

In the 1920s and 1930's the Catholic Church was Feeneyite. Today it is Cushingite.

-Lionel Andrades

Mary, Mother of the Church