Monday, February 21, 2011

IS APOLOGIST ART SIPPO CHANGING CHURCH TEACHING TO PROTECT HIS JOB AT THE HOSPITAL ?

There are Catholics who are changing Church  teaching since they do not want to be charged under anti-Semitism laws.So they maintain the lie about Catholic teaching and fool themself that they are following the teaching of the Church.

For instance, Catholic apologist Art Sippo  understands clearly that the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 refers to the ‘dogma’.

Now, among those things which the Church has always preached and will never cease to preach is contained also that infallible statement by which we are taught that there is no salvation outside the Church.

However, this dogma must be understood in that sense in which the Church herself understands it. For, it was not to private judgments that Our Savior gave for explanation those things that are contained in the deposit of faith, but to the teaching authority of the Church…-Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston (Emphasis added)
He knows that the text of the dogma indicates all Jews in Boston need to convert into the Church to avoid Hell.

Here is the ex cathedra dogma.
1. “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215). Ex Cathedra

2. “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, 302.). Ex Cathedra

3.“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.) Ex Cathedra – from the website Catholicism.org
He has read the text above. It is objective and factual.Yet he will not say that the Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston 1949 supported Fr. Leonard Feeney on doctrine. He was not excommunicated for heresy.Instead he will condemn Fr. Leonard Feeney and pretend that the Letter of the Holy Office was against him.In other words, the Church has changed its teaching on extra ecclesiam nulla salus and in this safe position no one can accuse him of being anti-Semitic .

Then Art Sippo understands that there is absolutely no text in Lumen Gentium 16 which says we know of specific cases of people saved in invincible ignorance etc, in the present times.Yet he will claim Vatican Council II contradicts the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

Apply the Three Common Sense Points.

1. There is no way that we can know of a particular person saved in invincible ignorance or the baptism of desire because of its very nature. It is known only to God.
 2. There is no text in Vatican Council II or the Catechism which claims we know of any such case. (Lumen Gentium 16 mentions the possibility of such people being saved, which we accept conceptually. De facto we do not know if there is even one single case in the present times, or the last 100 years)
3. So Vatican Council II and the Catechism do not contradict the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.-The Three Common Sense Points 

So how can he claim that Vatican Council II contradicts the ex cathedra dogma when he cannot provide any specific text.
How can some of those Catholic writers on websites change or deny, an ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, in the name of Vatican Council II or Fr. Leonard Feeney and pretend it is not a mortal sin? How can they go to receive the Eucharist at Mass?

He knows that the Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing held the heretical belief that there were non Catholics saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire in the present times and they were known to us . So for him this  contradicted  Fr.Leonard Feeney and the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
Art Sippo does not consider this heresy.Probably, just convenient !
He's a medical doctor.