Ambrose said:
The SBC began this mess in the 1940s, and now we are living with their tree of rotten fruit. All Catholics everywhere believed in Baptism of Desire. This is a heresy.
What i read was that Fr. Feeney was simply preaching No Salvation Outside the Church, not against bod/bob, because already during his time in America almost everyone believed that even Protestants could be saved just like that and that they didn't need to become Catholic.
That is where the starting point was, and if they had stayed on track, all of us would have supported them as great defenders of the Faith.
There is no doubt that some Catholics were holding a watered down idea of EENS, and that it needed to be opposed. Pope Pius XII himself recognized the problem and wrote about it in
Humani Generis. Fr. Feeney also recognized the problem and opposed it.
The problem came when the SBC published an essay that contained a denial of implicit Baptism of Desire. This was the specific problem that drew the attention of the Holy Office, leading to the 1949 letter correcting this error.
At some point, however, the SBC shifted from their denial of implicit Baptism of Desire to a denial of explicit Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood. Their teaching was then summed up by the statement, "water or damnation."
While the denial of implicit Baptism of Desire is erroneous, the denial of Baptism of Desire in and of itself is heretical.