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Emerentina said:
We all know who the founder of this heresy is. it was Father Leonard]Feeney. Are there any other priests in the US that follow his beliefs? Are there supposedly traditional priests out there who agree with Feeney and the Diamonds?
ALL of the traditional clergy in the world today do not subscribe to Feeney's beliefs, but there may be a few who have been influenced by Feeney.
If there are, there should be no problem for the Feenyites to say who they are. If there are clergy who subscribe to this they need to own up to it.
Feenyism is essentially a lay heresy. It is a misinterpretation of the teachings of the church on BOB and BOD.
We all know who the founder of this heresy is. it was Father Leonard Feeney.
We need to get straight some facts in defense of Fr. Leonard Feeney.
Fr. Feeney was considered the most knowledge theologian in the US at the time.
Fr. Feeney believed and taught that there was no Salvation for anyone without the Sacrament of Baptism.
Fr. Feeney is is said to have converted over 200 jews protestants, and atheists to the Catholic Faith.
The error Fr. Feeney thought the Council of Trent taught was, that one could be Justified, by the desire for it. But rightly believing that one could not be saved without water Baptism. Some think because of the modernist writings on the session of justification, where "desire", was misrepresented.
(more on that later), was his error in good faith .
Justification , (or Santfying Grace), comes only after one is Baptised and thereby enters the Church.
When we blatently label someone with the imfamous title like "Feeneyite', or words similar for those who follow the supposed false teaching of Fr. Feeney, on Baptism of desire in relation to Salvation,
or anyone else who upholds the Dogma of "Outside the Church there is no Salvation". We must be careful that we have the clear facts in hand, to understand what the teaching of the Church really Holds , especially in its Councils and Dogmas.
I put the challenge out there .........
Please show me in the infallible Council of Trent or Vat I , where the words "Baptism of Desire", are used in anyway, to describe a method of Baptism, or for Salvation, or for anything else.????
Note...... Theologians , Doctors , Saints, don t count. They upon themselves have no authority to make Doctrine.. Being fallable humans, can ,and have made errors in their writings in the past. They can teach, preach or write on difined dogmatic Dogmas ,or Doctrine, and can be held accountable for any errors. We need Defined infallible Dogmatic Catholic Doctrine.
Read the words of PPXII on Theologians,
PPXII on theologians
Pope Pius XII, Humani generis (# 21), Aug. 12, 1950:
“This deposit of faith our Divine Redeemer has given for authentic interpretation not to each of the faithful, not even to theologians, but only to the Teaching Authority of the Church.’”