And, on this point, you ducked my question about affirming or condemning the Church's official discipline in allowing priest to say Mass privately for a person known to have died believing he was a non-Catholic. YOU AVOIDED IT BIG TIME!
Your worthless point has already been addressed quite well by someone else, so I felt no need to add anything else. I was avoiding nothing. This is allowed (only privately so as not to cause scandal) in the event that the person may have converted and entered the Church before dying. There is no exception to EENS that can be read here. In fact, there are NO exceptions to EENS. Even the half-decent Novus Ordites will simply try to loosen the criteria by which one can be within the Church -- but your buddy bosco claims that there are exceptions to EENS. He's a heretic. Please denounce him as such before you lose the little bit of credibility you have left.
It is merely you making a claim out of thin air. There is no support for what you say. The Church allows a priest to be at the bedside of a non-Catholic believing he is a non-Catholic to his dying breath, and seeing the doctor declare the person died, and still say a private Mass for the soul of that visibly non-Catholic if he discerns good-will. You are just inventing something the Church has never said, as if you are smarter than the Church Herself! Somehow the Church failed to stipulate, is that what you are implying?
There is no exception to EENS, only to visible membership (with conditions). Supernatural faith and charity are absolutely necessary for salvation, and sb13 knows all this.
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