ANGELO AMATO FURTHERS CAUSE OF MISSIONARY PIUS XII: CALLS FOR DIALOGUE WITH PROCLAMATION

Archbishop Angelo Amato, Prefect for the Congregation for the Cause of the Saint has said inter religious dialogue should not exclude proclamation. He was in accord with Pope Pius XII whose cause for beatification he has pushed ahead. The Servant of God approved Catholic Mission in its purity of doctrine- calling for a proclamation based on the dogma which said all non-Catholics need to explicitly enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell and go to Heaven

Archbishop Angelo Amato was speaking at a conference on ecumenism and inter religious dialogue organised  in Emilia Romagna, Italy according to Avvenire ( Amato: il dialogo non exclude l'nnuncio ' Stefano Andrini da Bologna Dec3.2009,Avvenire p.16 Catholica)

At the conference the archbishop did not mention the surprise but welcome announcement of the decree placing Pope Pius XII and Pope John Paul II closer to beatification.

It was Pope Pius XII who gave us the missionary mandate when he approved the missionary dogma which would later be corroborated by the Vatican Council II.

In 1949 Pope Pius XIII  approved the Letter to the Archbishop of Boston regarding Fr. Leonard Feeney which specifically called the dogma the infallible teaching.

Here is the ex cathedra dogma that Pope Pius XII affirmed as the ‘infallible teaching’.

• “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)

• “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.)

• “The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.)
-from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, (http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholicchurch.blogspot.com/, The Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS)

Vatican Council II would follow by saying Christians and other non Catholics would need to enter the Catholic Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.

Lumen Gentium 14 would indicate that the leaders of the Orthodox Churches and Protestant communities who are educated and informed need to enter the Catholic Church with Catholic Faith to avoid Hell.

Ad Gentes 7. … 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…’

Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II is saying that all Christians need to convert into the Catholic Church for salvation. The dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus also says every one of them.

Ad Gentes 7: ‘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."…

Those participating in inter religious dialogue and ecumenism, are educated and aware. They are oriented to Hell according to Ad Gentes 7 and Lumen Gentium 14, Vatican Council II.

Ad Gentes 7 would repeat the message of the ex cathedra dogma that everyone; all people, need Catholic Faith and the baptism of water to avoid Hell and go to Heaven.

Archbishop Angelo Amato said inter religious dialogue should not be substituted for Christian proclamation or to cancel mission and evangelization by the Catholic Church.

In a certain sense missionary institutes, he said, have  lost or reduced the presentation of the Gospel at the cost of social activism’

So in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 Pope Pius XII was saying that every Jew in Boston needed to convert to go to Heaven and avoid Hell. This was also the message of Fr. Leonard Feeney and the communities he founded, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Two of the communities have been approved by the Diocese of Worcester, USA where they have been granted canonical status.They proclaim the Gospel even amidst social action.

When the Archbishop was the Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith he called for mission and evangelisation based on Vatican Council II. In an interview with Avvenire he cited the text of Ad Gentes 7 and Lumen Gentium 14.

He is calling for a proclamation in accord with the teachings of the dogma as proclaimed by Pope Pius XII.

So proclamation cannot be restricted to a vague reference to Jesus but to Jesus within the Catholic Church. Ecumenism calls for unity of all Christians within the doctrines and Sacraments of the Catholic Church. Otherwise it could be opposed to the dogma and so heresy, a mortal sin.