St Alphonsus' theory is riddled with problems.  Read here:  https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/st-alphonsus-blatant-error-on-baptism-of-desire/#.W01MctVKiM8

St Alphonsus is not infallible.  Trent is.  Trent says the desire must be for baptism, to be justified, which means explicit desire.

St Alphonsus' theory is riddled with problems.  Read here:  https://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/catholicchurch/st-alphonsus-blatant-error-on-baptism-of-desire/#.W01MctVKiM8

St Alphonsus is not infallible.  Trent is.  Trent says the desire must be for baptism, to be justified, which means explicit desire.

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Saint Alphonsus is "riddled with problems."  Here!  Read some fake monks to get the "real scoop" on what the Church teaches.
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"Although he wrote so vast a number of works, it has nevertheless been found, upon the strict examination which has been instituted in regard to them, that they may be read by the faithful without the least fear of finding the smallest error in them" (Pope Gregory XVI, Canonization Bull of St. Alphonsus, 1839).

If you're scared to challenge your views, then you're not intellectually honest.  Who cares who made the argument?  Just because a person is wrong in one area doesn't mean they're wrong in all areas.  The diamond bros aren't the only ones who point out the flaws of St Alphonsus' views.

p.s. the church has NEVER SAID that all writings of a saint are infallible.  That's ridiculous.

This.

Whatever St. Thomas, the greatest theologian of all time taught, and whatever the other great saints taught, was over ruled by Trent, who, with the full authority of the Church's infallibility, explicitly decreed that 1) justification is attainable through the desire for the sacrament, 2) the sacrament is necessary for salvation, 3) what the matter of the sacrament of baptism is, 4) who may administer the sacrament, and 5) condemns those who say the sacrament is not necessary.

No matter what anyone wants to argue about the issue, even if the whole world wants to insist that salvation via a BOD is a doctrine of the Church, they have not only the above facts to contend with, they also must admit that the term a "baptism of desire" is not mentioned, defined nor is it found anywhere in any official Church docuмents.

Although over the last century or two the error of a BOD, like the error of the NO (Modernism) has been infiltrated into the seminaries, the catechisms and all the manifestations of the Church, the trad groups who promote it do so in error based on the above facts.

Well, that's not true at all. Saint Alphonsus (just to take the most noteworthy example) said that it could be implicit. And then when he died, his canonization bull declared that his work could be read without fear of discovering even the smallest error.

St. Alphonsus expressed very clearly in several of his works that an explicit faith in the Trinity and Incarnation is necessary for salvation by a necessity of means. If he used the word “implicit” in reference to BOD, he must have meant that those who have an explicit faith in the Trinity and Incarnation can be justified by an implicit desire for Baptism prior to having received Baptism and prior even to having been told anything about the Sacrament. This is completely different from what the liberalizing “traditionalist” associations mean when they use the expression “implicit BOD”.

St. Alphonsus wrote the following in his History of Heresies and their Refutation:

Still we answer the Semipelagians, and say, that infidels who arrive at the use of reason, and are not converted to the Faith, cannot be excused, because though they do not receive sufficient proximate Grace, still they are not deprived of remote Grace, as a means of becoming converted. But what is this remote Grace? St. Thomas explains it, when he says, that if any one was brought up in the wilds, or even among brute beasts, and if he followed the law of natural reason, to desire what is good, and to avoid what is wicked, we should certainly believe either that God, by an internal inspiration, would reveal to him what he should believe, or would send some one to preach the Faith to him, as he sent Peter to Cornelius. Thus, then, according to the Angelic Doctor, God, at least remotely, gives to the infidels, who have the use of reason, sufficient Grace to obtain salvation, and this Grace consists in a certain instruction of the mind, and in a movement of the will, to observe the natural law; and if the infidel co-operates with this movement, observing the precepts of the law of nature, and abstaining from grievous sins, he will certainly receive, through the merits of Jesus Christ, the Grace proximately sufficient to embrace the Faith, and save his soul.

Under Pope Clement XI in 1703, when the missionary movement to “ignorant natives” was at its height, all missionaries were explicitly forbidden by the Holy Office to baptize a barbarian, even if he was dying, unless they elicited from him an explicit act of belief in Jesus Christ. Nor was it enough, declared the Holy Office, for this barbarian to know that God exists and is a remunerator. He must be told all the central mysteries of the Faith that derive from the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation. The administration of the Sacrament of Baptism to a person who does not have an explicit faith in the Trinity would be invalid. Are you honestly willing to speculate that infidels can baptize themselves by “desire” knowing all the while that they cannot be validly baptized by water?

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Saint Alphonsus is "riddled with problems."  Here!  Read some fake monks to get the "real scoop" on what the Church teaches.
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"Although he wrote so vast a number of works, it has nevertheless been found, upon the strict examination which has been instituted in regard to them, that they may be read by the faithful without the least fear of finding the smallest error in them" (Pope Gregory XVI, Canonization Bull of St. Alphonsus, 1839).

Actually study the problem instead of running away crying and pouting like a baby.

St. Alphonsus cited a letter from one of the Pope Innocents as proof that BoD was de fide ... misconstruing the authority of the letter.  In a very similar letter, another Pope states that someone who is saved by BoD enters heaven "without delay" after their death.  Yet St. Alphonsus speculated, contrary to this papal teaching, that those who are saved by BoD do NOT have all the temporal punishment due to sin remitted, and thus would tarry in Purgatory for some time.  So he contradicts papal teaching that, according to his own standards, would make his theory heretical.

St. Alphonsus was not infallible, period, regardless of the flowery language used by Pope Gregory XVI.  Quite a few theologians disagree with a number of his conclusions regarding moral theology.

Now the modern heretics go, several steps removd, all the way down the line to ...
Implicit Desire:  "I want to be a good person and do what God wants."

This is what the "preservers" of tradition teach. This leaves most Traditional Catholics almost bereft of the True teaching of the Church. We should not judge a cleric by the lace and vestments her wears, but the soundness of the doctrine that he believes and teaches.

That's has a copyright of 1921...and it's a commentary on the actual baltimore council.  First edition is from 1885.