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I need true instruction, advice, and prayers. This question of whether the Dimond brothers, the Feeneyites, etc are correct or whether the other side is has been boggling my mind, just as sedevacantism did before.

I read about baptism of desire/blood in the Baltimore catechism, this article on Mr. Griff Ruby's site, Fr. Anthony Cekada's article y here, and more. I just don't know what to do. I care only for holding the Faith and going to Heaven. Its just that the Dimond argument is so strong. Its so clearly spelled out, dogmatically.

Please dear friends, can anyone help me. Especially when it comes to implicit faith and invincible ignorance.

I am feeling tempted to embrace Feeneyism and home-aloneism. I do not feel that I can be judged a pertinacious heretic by anyone, since we are not in normal times, and I cannot write the Holy Office, Pius XII, etc and ask them personally this conflict in my mind.

Please, say any players you can for me, even though I don't do so often for others. Please my friends. Our Lady of Good Counsel, pray for us who have recourse to thee!

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I need true instruction, advice, and prayers. This question of whether the Dimond brothers, the Feeneyites, etc are correct or whether the other side is has been boggling my mind, just as sedevacantism did before.

I read about baptism of desire/blood in the Baltimore catechism, this article on Mr. Griff Ruby's site, Fr. Anthony Cekada's article y here, and more. I just don't know what to do. I care only for holding the Faith and going to Heaven. Its just that the Dimond argument is so strong. Its so clearly spelled out, dogmatically.

Please dear friends, can anyone help me. Especially when it comes to implicit faith and invincible ignorance.

I am feeling tempted to embrace Feeneyism and home-aloneism. I do not feel that I can be judged a pertinacious heretic by anyone, since we are not in normal times, and I cannot write the Holy Office, Pius XII, etc and ask them personally this conflict in my mind.

Please, say any players you can for me, even though I don't do so often for others. Please my friends. Our Lady of Good Counsel, pray for us who have recourse to thee!

It's not something for a baptized Christian to worry about, unless you think all the saints who believed in Baptism of Desire are heretics.  If that's the case, the Church has insoluble problems and has been leading people astray for centuries, if you believe that, why be Catholic?  

Thank you Tele. Why don't the Dimonds condemn Monsignor J. Fenton et al as you have said as heretics, yet in these times, when the see can very well be vacant for almost 60 years, people are condemned as heretics.

I read about baptism of desire/blood in the Baltimore catechism, this article on Mr. Griff Ruby's site, Fr. Anthony Cekada's article y here, and more. I just don't know what to do. I care only for holding the Faith and going to Heaven. Its just that the Dimond argument is so strong. Its so clearly spelled out, dogmatically.

No they don't.  They just have their Pharisee-like misinterpretation of dogma.  

If a decree says "You must be baptized" that doesn't mean there aren't exceptions.  Imagine if you read everything literally, like in the Apocalypse where it says "murderers, adulterers, liars" and so on won't reach the kingdom of heaven.  If you read that literally, then you're damned if you tell one lie, and can't be forgiven.

Being able to grasp the SPIRIT of the law is of the highest importance.  That is why you have to trust real theologians and not amateurs which is what the Dimonds are, not to mention spiritually occluded.  Can you imagine St. Thomas spitting constant venom and claiming everyone is a heretic, cartoonishly, like these guys?  Why would you trust people who think that pretty much no one in the world except their one or two disciples will be saved?  That is a personal cult, not the Catholic cult.

These guys are preying on scruples.  Pray to a saint or to Mary to end your scruples.  I am convinced if more people did the consecration to Mary of St. Louis de Montfort this would not be happening.  We go about it all backwards, trying to work things out with our brains instead of through the light of faith and humility.  Probably the greatest spiritual leap I've ever taken is since beginning this consecration.  It fills you with a sense of your own unworthiness and from this perspective you get far sharper vision.  God does not reveal his secrets to the proud; He abhors pride.  That is why so many arrogant young bucks are going stone-blind.  And though they may not think they're arrogant, they are, because there is almost zero emphasis put on prayer and true spiritual progress these days, on mysticism.