John-Henry Westen interviewed the “cancelled” priest, Father Jeff Fasching, of the Wichita, Kansas, Diocese. According to the discussion in the video, Father Fasching was removed as pastor because he taught difficult and unpopular Catholic truths from the pulpit of his parish church — one of those difficult truths being extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
It is not possible to embed the video on our site, but here are a few introductory paragraphs from the associated page at LifeSite:
Fr. Fasching had been the pastor of two small rural parishes in the Diocese of Wichita, Kansas, where the parishioners had unfortunately been poorly catechized. This poor catechesis resulted in some of these parishioners getting upset when Fasching preached basic Catholic teaching.
“Long story short, I was simply preaching the Gospel. That’s really all I did, but it rattled some feathers, and it was just a few people,” he said.
Fasching gave examples of how he preached the Church’s teaching on the narrow road to heaven and “extra Ecclesiam nulla salus,” or “outside the Church, there is no salvation.”
There are aspects of the presentation of this doctrine that I cannot agree with in the discussion, but it is evident that Father Fasching wants to avoid the heresy of Indifferentism and preaches the necessity of the Church for salvation. May God bless him!
