St. Alphonsus: Now it is "de fide" that men are also saved by Baptism of desire, by virtue of the Canon Apostolicam, "de presbytero non baptizato" and of the Council of Trent, session 6, Chapter 4 where it is said that no one can be saved 'without the laver of regeneration or the desire for it.'" (Note: Unbelievers can see the original book in Latin here. Turn to page 310 in the book (or page 157 of the PDF file).
St. Robert: De Controversiis, “De Baptismo,” Lib. I, Cap. VI: “But without doubt it must be believed that true conversion supplies for Baptism of water when one dies without Baptism of water not out of contempt but out of necessity... For it is expressly said in Ezechiel: If the wicked shall do penance from his sins, I will no more remember his iniquities...Thus also the Council of Trent, Session 6, Chapter 4, says that Baptism is necessary in fact or in desire (in re vel in voto)”.
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Interestingly, St. Alphonsus cites the dubious (its attribution to the Pope is disputed)
de presbytero non baptizato as having solemn Magisterial force, but then contradicts the same docuмent, which states that this priest went straight to heaven "without delay" ... in his own speculation that temporal punishment remains in the case of BoD. In a very similar letter (non-Magisterial), Pope Innocent III teaches the error that transubstantiation occurs even if the priest merely thinks the words of consecration ... an error for which he was rightly excoriated by St. Thomas.
St. Robert injects the term "in re" into Trent, which phrase appears nowhere. He doesn't take time to consider the language of "cannot happen without", which speaks to necessary cause but not sufficient cause.
They're both mistaken. And they are not God and they are not the Magisterium.
St. Robert, BTW, limits BoD to catechumens ... because he strongly (some argue to a fault) argue in favor of the Church as VISIBLE SOCIETY, along the same lines as Rahner indicated regarding the Fathers, that they considered catechumens to be joined to the Visible Church. Do you?