In Salvation for Non-Catholics and Limbo, Dr. Jeffrey Mirus makes two arguments I would like to address. The first deals with limbo and claims that the lack of certitude that we have about the fate of unbaptized infants provides a … Continue reading
Category: Outside the Church there is no Salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus)
The Holy Unia Blog
I would like to bring to the attention of our readers a new blog — new to me, anyway — called The Holy Unia Blog. It’s an Eastern-Rite and pro-extra ecclesiam nulla salus blog that is “Promoting Holy Unia. Rejecting … Continue reading
Psychology and Salvation
In New Ideas on the Church and Salvation, I addressed the positions taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mirus in his piece, Salvation for Non-Catholics: Not a New Idea. Here, I will make some observations concerning the first of his two follow-ups: … Continue reading
Mother Seton: Humbly Doctrinaire, and Missionary
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton is our first American-born United States citizen to be canonized. She was born in New York City in 1774. When Paul VI raised her to the altar in 1975, he praised her lifelong commitment to charity … Continue reading
Jeff Mirus Uses Vatican II and Saint Paul to Contradict Defined Dogma on Salvation
I wonder sometimes why conservative Catholic thinkers like Dr. Mirus find the literal sense of the dogma, No Salvation Outside the Church, so distasteful. They have no problem giving an “uncertain sound” on their trumpets by giving non-Catholics a hope … Continue reading
Pope Pius XI on False Ecumenism and No Salvation outside the Church
The misdirected effort to unify Christians without seeking converts to Catholicism was already under way in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1929, Pope Pus XI wrote on this subject in his encyclical Mortalium Animos, in which he … Continue reading
Bobby Kennedy and Father Feeney: Religion as American Politics
This is a bit antiquated, but it’s just come to my attention. Teddy wanted to make sure Bobby got credit for his contribution to twentieth-century Catholic doctrinal development. (Cardinal Newman and Robert Kennedy: the two names should stand side-by-side.) This … Continue reading
Prayer for the Conversion of Non-Catholics
When we say that lex orandi lex credendi est, we mean that the Church’s prayers reveal to us her doctrines, and that salutary doctrine informs our prayer life. This point can be illustrated with any and every teaching of our … Continue reading
Blessed Pius IX on Salvation and the Church
In his Syllabus of Modern Errors, Blessed Pope Pius IX condemned the following, under the heading, “III. INDIFFERENTISM, LATITUDINARIANISM”: 15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider … Continue reading
Indifferentism is a Condemned Heresy: Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos
“Indifferentism” is the belief that it does not matter what religion a man professes, he can be saved nonetheless. The Church has roundly condemned this notion as a heresy in very strong language, holding it to be a denial of … Continue reading
Good, Not-Often-Enough-Read Article
Brother Thomas Mary, author of They Fought The Good Fight, wrote an article many years ago that deserves wider circulation and attention. It’s called, simply, “Doctrinal Summary” — an accurate name, as the piece summarizes Father Feeney’s doctrinal stance, but … Continue reading
Father Feeney Fact Sheet
[Tower of David Ministry] Father Feeney was a priest of the Society of Jesus until, in 1949, he co-founded the religious order, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Mancipia Immaculati Cordis Mariae), whose acronym is MICM. This priest was … Continue reading
A Brief History of Saint Benedict Center
We will tell the history of the Center in a question-and-answer format. How did Saint Benedict Center begin? In 1940, a prominent Catholic laywoman, Catherine Goddard Clarke, sought permission of the then Archbishop of Boston, William Cardinal O’Connell, to establish … Continue reading