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Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Father Benedict Groeschel (born July 23, 1933) is a Roman Catholic priest, author, psychologist, activist and host of the television talk show Sunday Night Live with …More
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
Father Benedict Groeschel (born July 23, 1933) is a Roman Catholic priest, author, psychologist, activist and host of the television talk show Sunday Night Live with Father Benedict Groeschel, which is broadcast on the Eternal Word Television Network. He is the director of the Office for Spiritual Development for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and one of the founders of the Franciscan Friars and the Sisters of Renewal, two religious orders.
Lionel Andrades
Sunday, January 1, 2012
ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK (EWTN) SAYS 'SUBMISSION TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF IS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION'
EWTN has placed on the Internet the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 addressed to the Archbishop of Boston (1) in which it says ‘submission to the Catholic Church and the Sovereign Pontiff is required as necessary for salvation.’ The issue was …More
Sunday, January 1, 2012

ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK (EWTN) SAYS 'SUBMISSION TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF IS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION'

EWTN has placed on the Internet the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 addressed to the Archbishop of Boston (1) in which it says ‘submission to the Catholic Church and the Sovereign Pontiff is required as necessary for salvation.’ The issue was the interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

This was the same teaching of Fr.Leonard Feeney. He taught everyone needs to be a visible, explicit member of the Catholic Church for salvation.This was not the teaching of the Archbishop of Boston and the Jesuits there.They said there were exceptions to the dogma and so every one did not have to enter the Catholic Church.The exceptions for them could be people in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire.

EWTN also mentions ‘the dogma’, the ‘infallible teaching’ . The dogma says every one needs to convert into the Church for salvation .No exceptions are mentioned. (2)

EWTN refers to those saved with the baptism of desire etc.Since these cases are known only to God they are not exceptions to the dogma. We do not know a single case in the present times.

Similarly Lumen Gentium 16 (invincible ignorance/good conscience) is not an exception to the dogma outside the church there is no salvation. Neither is it an exception to the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 issued during the pontificate of Venerable Pope Pius XII which says, ‘submission to the Catholic Church and the Sovereign Pontiff is required as necessary for salvation.’

It was Mother Angelica the founder of EWTN who affirmed the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and quoted the Church Fathers.She did not consider invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire as exceptions to the Church Fathers’ interpretation of the dogma.

On doctrine/dogma the Letter of the Holy Office was a criticism of the Archbishop of Boston and the Jesuits who assumed that the baptism of desire etc were defacto known to us and so were exceptions to the centuries old interpretation of outside the church there is no salvation.The Letter of the Holy Office refers to implicit and not explicit (to us) baptism of desire. For the baptism of desire to be an exception to the dogma it would have to be explicit.(3)

EWTN has also posted an article by the late Fr.William Most who also assumes that the baptism of desire etc are visible and an exception to the dogma. Fr.Most implies being saved in invincible ignorance is the ordinary means of salvation and so the American natives were saved before the Catholic missionaries arrived there.

The Letter of the Holy Office indicates, like Vatican Council II (LG 14, AG 7) that Catholics Faith with the baptism of water is the ordinary means of salvation.So the American Natives before the missionaries were all oriented to Hell just like all non Catholics today in America unless they convert into the Catholic Church.

The ordinary means of salvation is also not just beleiving in Jesus Christ without the Catholic Church according to EWTN. Just beleiving in Jesus is sufficient for salvation is a Protestant teaching rejected by the Letter of the Holy Office 1949. All Protestants are lost unless they convert into the only Church Jesus founded, according to EWTN, ‘submission to the Catholic Church and the Sovereign Pontiff is required as necessary for salvation.’
-Lionel Andrades

1.
www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdffeeny.htm

2.
catholicism.org/category/outside-the-chu…

3.
eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/…/Letter of the H…
eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/…/if-you-say-that…

eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/…/eternal-word-te…
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