Bishop
Bernard Fellay of the SSPX blatantly denies Catholic
dogma by teaching that Hindus can be saved
By Bro. Peter Dimond,
O.S.B.
-5/05/06-
We’ve
repeatedly documented that almost all traditionalist priests deny the dogma
Outside the Church There is No Salvation.
We’ve also documented that among those dogma deniers, the priests of the
SSPX are prominent. We’ve also pointed
out that almost all of these dogma deniers sometimes make statements which seem
to indicate that they hold the dogma; when, in fact, they don’t. All of this was on display in Bishop Bernard Fellay’s recent Conference in Denver, Colorado. His speech was printed in the recent issue of
The Angelus. Notice that near the beginning of his
Conference, Fellay made statements which absolutely
seemed to indicate that he holds strictly to the necessity of the Catholic
Faith and Jesus Christ for salvation.
Bishop Bernard Fellay,
Conference in Denver, Co., Feb. 18,
2006: “So Faith is necessary. The Church is necessary. If we want to be saved, there is no other
way except for the Church which Jesus has founded. Between God and creation, there is an
infinite gap. On the side of man, since
Original Sin, there is no way to cross this infinite abyss except by the bridge
imposed and created by God in His only-begotten Son made flesh, Our Lord Jesus
Christ. There is no other way to go to heaven except Our Lord Jesus Christ
and Our Lord Jesus Christ wanted to associate with this work of Redemption the souls
who would be united with Him, in Him, through Baptism, and which constitute the
Mystical Body of Christ, the Catholic Church.
What a tremendous mystery. This is why the Church is as necessary as
Jesus; because it is the same reality.” (The Angelus, “A Talk Heard Round the
World,” April, 2006, p. 5.)
Very
shortly after making these statements, however, Fellay
proceeded to deny the dogma and reveal that he doesn’t believe anything he just
said.
Bishop Bernard Fellay,
Conference in Denver, Co., Feb. 18,
2006: “We know that there are two other
baptisms, that of desire and that of blood.
These produce an invisible but real link with Christ but do not produce
all of the effects which are received in the baptism of water… And the Church has always taught that you
have people who will be in heaven, who are in the state of grace, who have been
saved without knowing the Catholic Church.
We know this. And yet, how is it
possible if you cannot be saved outside the Church? It is absolutely true that they will be saved
through the Catholic Church because they will be united to Christ, to the
Mystical Body of Christ, which is the Catholic Church. It will, however, remain invisible, because
this visible link is impossible for them.
Consider a Hindu in Tibet who
has no knowledge of the Catholic Church.
He lives according to his conscience and to the laws which God has put
into his heart. He can be in the state
of grace, and if he dies in this state of grace, he will go to heaven.” (The Angelus, “A Talk Heard Round the World,” April, 2006, p. 5.)
These
words are found on the very same page of The
Angelus as the words in the first quote above. This is disgusting and bold heresy, and
proves that Fellay doesn’t believe anything he said
above. First, notice that he says “We
know that there are two other baptisms.”
Excuse me, but we know that there is ONLY ONE BAPTISM OF WATER. Catholics confess one baptism. If you don’t confess only one baptism, you
are not a Catholic.
Pope Clement V, Council
of Vienne, 1311-1312, ex cathedra: “Besides, one baptism which
regenerates all who are baptized in Christ must be faithfully confessed
by all just as ‘one God and one faith’ [Eph. 4:5], which
celebrated in water in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit we believe to be commonly
the perfect remedy for salvation for adults as for children.” (Denz. 482)
Second, Fellay says a Hindu – that is, an idolater who worships
many false gods and doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ – can be in the state of
grace and be saved. This is a total
rejection of infallible Catholic dogma.
This proves again that Bishop Bernard Fellay
is not a member of the Catholic Church.
He rejects the solemn teaching that all who die
in non-Catholic religions and without the essential mysteries of the Catholic
Faith will be lost. He has changed the
dogma that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church or without the
Catholic Faith (the truth that all individuals who die as non-Catholics will be
lost, all the Hindus, Muslims, Jews, etc.) to
the heretical idea that no one
can be saved except through the
Catholic Church (meaning that all individuals who are saved, even if they are
not Catholic and part of a false religion or even worshipping false gods, are
saved in their religions but through
the Catholic Church). This is evil
heresy which is contradicted by ex
cathedra Papal teaching. The fact
that he holds that Hindus, etc. can be saved in their false religions reveals
that he has no Faith. (By the
way, notice that he also teaches the condemned heresy of an invisible Church by
teaching that non-Catholic Hindus are invisibly united to the Church.) The fact that he is guiding a large body of
those who consider themselves traditional Catholics in our day is a frightening
signal of exactly where we are in history and the Great Apostasy.
We hear all the time from
people who deny that their “traditionalist” priest denies the salvation
dogma. “No, my priest doesn’t believe
that,” they say about SSPX priests, CMRI priests, SSPV priests, etc. We try to tell them “yes, your priest does
believe that.” This Heresy of the Week
shows us again how priests who deny the salvation dogma will make statements
(often in the same speech) which make it seem as if they believe in it.
Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (# 13),
Aug. 15, 1832: “With the admonition of
the apostle, that ‘there is one God, one faith, one baptism’ (Eph. 4:5), may
those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to
persons of any religion whatever. They
should consider the testimony of Christ Himself that ‘those who are not with
Christ are against Him,’ (Lk. 11:23) and that
they disperse unhappily who do not gather with Him. Therefore, ‘without a doubt, they will perish
forever, unless they hold the Catholic faith whole and inviolate (Athanasian Creed).”
Pope Eugene IV, Council
of Florence, The Athanasian Creed, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex
cathedra:
“Whoever
wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless
each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in
eternity.” (Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Vol. 1, pp. 550-553; Denzinger
39-40.)
Pope
Gregory XVI, Summo Iugiter
Studio (# 2), May 27, 1832:
“Finally
some of these misguided people attempt to persuade themselves and others
that men are not saved only in the Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.”
Pope
Pius IV, Council of Trent, Iniunctum nobis, Nov. 13, 1565, ex cathedra: “This
true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved… I now
profess and truly hold…” (Denz. 1000)
Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate
Domino,” 1441, ex cathedra:
“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and
preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic Church, not only
pagans but also Jews or heretics and schismatics,
cannot share in eternal life and will go into the everlasting fire which was
prepared for the devil and his angels, unless they are joined to the Church
before the end of their lives; that the unity of this
ecclesiastical body is of such importance that only for those who abide in it
do the Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and
other works of piety and practices of the Christian militia produce eternal
rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much he has given away
in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name of Christ, unless he has
persevered in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”
Bishop Fellay is
preaching a new gospel directly contrary to Sacred Scripture. He is preaching that idolaters (Hindus) can
actually be saved.
1 Corinthians 6:9- “Know
you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers,
nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.”
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