The
SSPX priests in Rome are not capable of talking theology with me. Whenever they
see me they avoid me except for Fr. Aldo Rossi, the former Prior at Albano who
said that it is obvious that LG 8, 14, 15, 16, UR 3, NA 2 referred to only hypothetical
cases.
I
have been in, only Rome, over the last 20 years. I do not travel. I have not seen
Florence, Pisa, Trent…or the U.K, France, Germany ….Travel is not for me.I would have liked to meet the SSPX Superiors in other countries.
I
wish the SSPX had a District Superior at Albano who could confidently proclaim
the Catholic Faith. He must not choose the political line on Vatican Council II
but must be open to returning to Tradition.
It
is time for the SSPX priests to affirm Vatican Council II (rational), whenever
they can. Presently, they are not apostolic.
The
Nicene Creed for them says, ‘I believe in three or more known baptisms for the
forgiveness of sin and they exclude the baptism of water in the Catholic Church’.
The
Apostles Creed says for them, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic
Church, which today teaches that outside the Church there is salvation; there
is known salvation, while over the centuries it taught that outside the
Catholic Church there was no salvation; there was no known salvation.
The
Athanasius Creed for the SSPX says that not everyone needs to enter the Church
and have Catholic Faith for eternal life - there are known exceptions of the
baptism of desire etc.
The
Catechism of Pope Pius X has 24Q, 27Q contradicted by 29 Q, for the SSPX, but
not for me.
The
Catechism of the Catholic Church (845,846) is contradicted by CCC 847-848, for
the SSPX but not for me.
For the SSPX , Vatican Council II ( AG 7) is contradicted by LG 14, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc, but not for me.
For the SSPX, the Fourth Lateran Council and the Council of Florence on EENS, has exceptions- but not for me.
The
Council Fathers (1965), Pope Paul VI and the Coetus International Patrem group made
a mistake when they confused what was invisible as being visible and then
created a New Theology with the nontraditional conclusion. This was not the
work of the Holy Spirit. Inspite of this historical mistake, today we can still
interpret Vatican Council II in harmony with the Magisterium over the centuries.
We simply interpret invisible cases as not being visible (LG 16 is invisible)
and so not being objective exceptions for the past ecclesiocentrism .The past
ecclesiocentrism was accompanied with Christocentrism. But today for the SSPX
and the popes there is only a Christocentrism without an ecclesiocentrism which
says all need to be members of the Catholic Church for salvation.
For Pope Francis and the SSPX, Lumen Gentium 14, Lumen Gentium 16, Unitatis
Redintigratio 3, and Nostra Aetate 2, 1 refer to physically visible cases but for
me they are hypothetical only.
For Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez
and the SSPX , Lumen Gentium 14, Lumen Gentium 16, Unitatis
Redintigratio 3 , and Nostra Aetate 2 are a break with the dogma EENS and the
rest of Tradition. For me they refer to invisible cases in 2024. So there is no
contradiction of Tradition.
For the SSPX and Pope Francis the red is an exception for the blue in the following passages. For me the red is not an exception for the blue.
(The passages marked in red refer to hypothetical and invisible cases and so do not contradict the orthodox passages, here marked in blue and neither the dogma EENS).
Therefore, all must be converted to Him, made known by the Church's preaching, and all must be incorporated into Him by baptism and into the Church which is His body. For Christ Himself "by stressing in express language the necessity of faith and baptism (cf. Mark 16:16; John 3:5), at the same time confirmed the necessity of the Church, into which men enter by baptism, as by a door. Therefore those men cannot be saved, who though aware that God, through Jesus Christ founded the Church as something necessary, still do not wish to enter into it, or to persevere in it."(17) Therefore though God in ways known to Himself can lead those inculpably ignorant of the Gospel to find that faith without which it is impossible to please Him (Heb. 11:6), yet a necessity lies upon the Church (1 Cor. 9:16). - Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II
THE RED IS NOT AN EXCEPTION FOR THE BLUE.
14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation. Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation. In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism124 and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church, for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church…
Catechumens who, moved by the Holy Spirit, seek with explicit intention to be incorporated into the Church are by that very intention joined with her. With love and solicitude Mother Church already embraces them as her own.- Lumen Gentium 14, Vatican Council II.
THE RED IS NOT AN EXCEPTION FOR THE BLUE.
The passage in Red refers to hypothetical and invisible cases in the present times. The passage in Blue are orthodox and support the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.The passages in Red do not contradict the passages in Blue.
- Lionel Andrades
Catechumens who,
moved by the Holy Spirit, seek with explicit intention to be incorporated into
the Church are by that very intention joined with her. With love and solicitude
Mother Church already embraces them as her own.- Lumen Gentium 14, Vatican
Council II
But the plan of
salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator… Those also
can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the
Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace
strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the
dictates of conscience.- Lumen Gentium 16, Vatican Council II.
Moreover, some and even very
many of the significant elements and endowments which together go to build up
and give life to the Church itself, can exist outside the visible boundaries of
the Catholic Church: the written word of God; the life of grace; faith,
hope and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, and visible
elements too. All of these, which come from Christ and lead back to Christ,
belong by right to the one Church of Christ.
The brethren divided from us
also use many liturgical actions of the Christian religion. These most
certainly can truly engender a life of grace in ways that vary according to the
condition of each Church or Community. These liturgical actions must be
regarded as capable of giving access to the community of salvation. – Unitatis Redintigratio 3
Vatican Council II
The Catholic Church rejects
nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with
sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and
teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and
sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all
men. – Nostra Aetate 2, Vatican Council II.