Daphne McLeod taught for forty years in Catholic Junior and primary schools.She taught Religious Education. She was a member of the Catholic Evidence Guild, and friend of Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward, and spoke regularly at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park. She is the Chairman of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, England. They are a team responsible for bringing many famous speakers, to address their conferences, including Mother Angelica of EWTN.Her talks are available on the internet and the audio on
Ecumenism is higly recommended.
She was asked
three questions (29.10.2009) and here is her prompt reply, the same, as that of apologist Scott Hahn. Her answer to the following three questions is YES.
Scott Hahn and Daphne Mcleod are affirming the dogma
extra ecclesiam nulla salus i.e de facto all people with
no exception need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation. De jure (in prinicple and theology) non Catholics can be saved, without the Sacraments, in an exception to the general,ordinary rule of Catholic Faith and the Baptism of water. These exceptions are known only to God. We cannot specifically say who they are and John 3:5 takes priority over any possible exceptions.
In the
Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Cushing relative to Fr.Leonard Feeney(1949) the 'dogma' and the 'infallible' teaching was affirmed while those saved implicitly and with an unconscious desire, were acknowledged as exceptional,
'in certain circumstances'. The
Letter was critical of Fr.Leonard Feeney for his
disobedience and not heresy.There is
no document which says that he was excommunicated for heresy.He was disobedient to the Archbishop, who time would show did not affirm the dogma. Neither did he or the Jesuits of Boston contradict the newspaper reports which said that the Catholic Church has changed its teaching on the need for all people to enter the Church for salvation.
1)
Does the Catholic Church teach that non Catholic religions, Hindus, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam etc are not paths to salvation (to go to Heaven and avoid Hell)?
YES
2)
Does the Catholic Church teach that Catholic Faith and the Baptism of water are needed for all people in general, barring the exceptions (invincible ignorance etc ) for salvation?
YES
3) When you meet a Jew in Boston or a Muslim in London can you tell him or her that he or she needs Catholic Faith and the Baptism of water to go to Heaven and avoid Hell?
YES
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