Saturday, January 13, 2024
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez agrees with me. He is on my side.Even journalists at the Catholic News Service, Catholic News Agency, National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal and Reuters support him. For them too LG 8,14,1,5,16,UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc refer to physically invisible cases
I mentioned in a previous blog post yesterday that
everyone agrees with me. There are no practical exceptions for the dogma EENS
in our human reality and there are none mentioned in Vatican Council II.
For Fernandez, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican, there is no theological basis for the Synod's liberalism, found in the Council-text.
The Dicastery has to interpret the Council only rationally and the conclusion is traditional and orthodox. The old view of looking at Vatican Council II has ended. The Council has another image. It supports the past ecclesiocentrism, the ecclesiology of the old Roman Missal.
This may not be politically correct for Fernandez and the liberal-left journalists. But they do not have a choice. They cannot continue to pretend that invisible cases of LG 8, 14, 15, 16 etc are visible in our human reality and are examples of known salvation outside the Church in 1965-2024.
Pope Pius XII made an error in the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston when he assumed that invisible cases of the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance are visible exceptions for Feeneyite EENS.This mistake was repeated in 1965 by Pope Paul VI. He confused invisible cases as being visible exceptions for Tradition and concluded that the dogma EENS was obsolete.
-Lionel Andrades
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