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Offline Mithrandylan

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Re: Dimond brothers
« Reply #75 on: July 14, 2019, 01:13:23 PM »
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  • To be clear, I don't believe any atheists can be saved.  

    The meaningless formula thing comes from an encyclical from Pope Pius XII.  Which as far as I understand, wouldn't be infallible.  So I'm not sure how that could be used to determine that particular views of EENS are heretical.

    And to be clear, again, I'm not defending Barron, just trying to understand how exactly we're distinguishing heresy (outright condemned by the Church) with merely extremely implausible imprudence
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    Interestingly, Mgr. Fenton seems to have regarded Humani Generis' reference to tautological EENS to be the Holy Father taking a swipe at Saint Benedict's Center, or at least he leveraged the expression against them in his famous "The Meaning of the Church's Necessity for Salvation" article in 1951.
    "Be kind; do not seek the malicious satisfaction of having discovered an additional enemy to the Church... And, above all, be scrupulously truthful. To all, friends and foes alike, give that serious attention which does not misrepresent any opinion, does not distort any statement, does not mutilate any quotation. We need not fear to serve the cause of Christ less efficiently by putting on His spirit". (Vermeersch, 1913).