IS Abp. RICHARD CUSHING AUTOMATICALLY EXCOMMUNICATED: VATICAN REOPEN THE BOSTON CASE
 
Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Diocese of Phoenix recently confirmed that Sister Margaret McBride of Phoenix’ Saint Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Centre had incurred an automatic excommunication or latae sententiae excommunication. Sister McBride was automatically excommunicated by her own actions.

Could the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix be asked if the Archbishops of Washington and Boston are also automatically excommunicated? The pro abortion politicians are in mortal sin says the American Archbishop who is the Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal in Rome. If they are in mortal sin, then are not the priests and bishops also in mortal sin who give them the Eucharist in that condition ?

Similarly the late Archbishop Richard Cushing in the 1940s gave us a new doctrine, the Cushing Doctrine, and rejected an ex cathedra dogma. Extra ecclesiam nulla salus for centuries said everyone with no exception needs to explicitly enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell. The Cushing Doctrine says those who are in invincible ignorance or have the baptism of desire, do not have to enter the Catholic Church and we explicitly know such cases. They are exceptions to the infallible teaching that everyone defacto needs to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to go to Heaven.

The Cushing Doctrine, promoted politically by the Jєωιѕн Left media and the Jesuits at Boston, is used  even in the present times. The Doctrinal Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) used it. It was cited, even though it is not part of the deposit of the faith, when the USCCB issued a clarification on a book by Fr. Peter C. Phan, a Professor at Georgetown's Department of Theology in Washington.

The USCCB correctly checked Fr. Peter Phan for his many errors.However the actual clarification was vague on
1) the necessity of all people to enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell and
2) ) it emphasized invincible ignorance as if it was opposed to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

To reject or change an infallible teaching is ‘grave matter’. So was Archbishop Cushing in public mortal sin and supported by the media in the 1940s and even today? When the Boston newspapers reported that the Church had changed its teaching on extra ecclesiam nulla salus after the Boston Case, there was no clarification from the Archbishops Office. The Holy Office 1949 issued a Letter to the Archbishop which was not released for three years. The St. Benedict Center was closed  by the archbishop and Fr. Leonard Feeney was expelled for being faithful to the ex cathedra dogma.He approved of the Jesuits removing Fr.Leonard Feeney from the community in Boston.


Here is the ex cathedra dogma.

1. “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved.” (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215). Ex Cathedra


2. “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.) Ex Cathedra


3.“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jєωs and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church.” (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441)  Ex Cathedra  – from the website Catholicism.org and “No Salvation outside the Church”: Link List, the Three Dogmatic Statements Regarding EENS http://nosalvationoutsideofthecatholicchurch.blogspot.com/

Why do we Catholics have to believe in a made-in-USA doctrine that originated in the 1940’s in Boston.We are under no obligation.Since it is not a Christian Revelation nor part of the deposit of the faith. Instead it is the creation of Archbishop Richard Cushing and the Jesuit community there.

When you ask a Catholic today if everyone needs to enter the Catholic Church he could answer yes.Then he could add the mantra ‘except for those in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire’.

Yet before the birth of Richard Cushing the Church always taught that everyone with no exception needed to explicitly enter the Catholic Church to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.

After the Richard Cushing error became widespread an American Jesuit priest, helped include the confusing line (mantra) in Vatican Council II (LumenGentium 16). He instituionalised the Richard Cushing interpretation of the ex cathedra dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

But in LG 16 he did not use the noun explicit nor the adverb explicitly and so he was not faithful really to this new doctrine. Vatican Council II does not say LG refers to explicit salvation.If it did it would be heresy.

So if we interpret LG 16 as did the popes and Councils of the past, then LG 16 (invincible ignorance etc) would refer not to explicit but implicit salvation.It refers only to a possibility, ‘in certain circuмstances’(Letter of the Holy Office 1949) and known to God only.

After the 1940’s a major change would be brought into the Catholic Church all over the world by the acceptance of the Richard Cushing doctrine on salvation.

Discerning Catholics ask why do they have to accept this pre-Vatican Council II teaching from Boston. Why do we have to interpret Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church according to the American archbishops reinterpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

The Archbishop of Boston and the Jesuits expelled Fr.Leonard Feeney since he said that everyone needs to explicitly enter the Catholic Church to avoid Hell and there were no exceptions. The Archbishop and the Jesuits said he was wrong. They said those who are in invincible ignorance and who have the baptism of desire they can be saved.They were implying that the baptism of desire was explicit and not implicit and so it contradicted the infallible teaching that there were no exceptions to the baptism of water and Catholic Faith.

If the baptism of desire and invincible ignorance refer to explicit salvation it contradicts the ex cathedra teaching extra ecclesiam nulla salus. It also contradicts the dogma on the infallibility of the pope ex cathedra.
It is also irrational since we do not know any particular case, explicitly, of the baptism of desire.