Many people are confused because with the human eye it may look as if a dying person was not united to the True church. Example: Someone who is a known Protestant, or even atheist, or anywhere in-between. Now they lay dying somewhere, their last breath minutes away.
God for some unknown reason to us, allows this person the grace to accept the Holy Catholic Faith, for even angels can administer Sacraments, as in the angel of Portugal. We do not know what is happening in the soul of others, no matter what these people who deny God's mercy believe.
I am not saying this happens to every dying soul, but God knows who most deserves His mercy. This is why the Church has always taught not to judge anyone. We can not!
This SSPX priest may have meant that to another human being a particular soul may have appeared to be outside the Church, but in God's eye the soul was UNITED TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
You people who deny Baptism of Desire are totally WRONG!
You limit God in what He can do.
You judge people.
You deny His Mercy!
You put yourself in God's place.
You steer other people in the wrong direction, by instilling doubt in the mercy of God.
You destroy Hope.
Our Lady said, "most souls go to Hell because they have no one to pray for them" which clearly means if you pray for others God will allow His merciful grace, and He knows the time, the perfect time to infuse His grace into the soul of all of us.
That was a totally Novus Ordo feelings oriented personal response with no basis in any tradition.
Speaking like that to a non-Catholic will do more harm than what you falsely accuse me of. Non-Catholics wiil die uncoverted because feelings oriented Novus Ordo people like you told them that they could save themselves. It is akin to what we hear all the time today when people are in their death bed, Oh, don't call the priest it'll scare her to death.
If a person dies with no desire to be baptized, nor a desire to be a Catholic, nor as a martyr for the true Faith, with no belief in or desire to believe in Christ and the Trinity, they are lost.
Catholics when interrogated,
must answer that the Church preaches
that all those who die outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and
without a doubt shall perish into the everlasting fire (Words from a dogmatic decree on EENS. This is the Holy Ghost speaking!)
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The Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith, under Blessed Pius X, in 1907, in answer to a question as to whether Confucius could have been saved, wrote:
“It is not allowed to affirm that Confucius was saved.
Christians, when interrogated, must answer that those who die as infidels are damned”.