TO ALL FEENEYITES:

Your disagreement with the infallibly defined doctrine of Baptism of Desire is as irrational as it is heretical. You have no excuse: Justification takes place by the laver of regeneration or the desire of it ("aut ejus voto"). The doctrine is interpreted in that sense officially in the Roman Catechism. The doctrine of baptism by "votum" is explained in the Roman Catechism by authotity of the pope who presided over the latter sessions of the Council of Trent and formulated by the most eminent Council Fathers of Trent, namely, St. Charles Borromeo. Do you disagree with their undertanding of the expression "aut ejus voto" -- of them who formulated and ratified the Decree on Justification? Do you disagree with all the popes and doctors who understood the Decree as clearly teaching Baptism of Desire? Are you aware that Vatican I defined under penalty of «anathema» that you must understand the dogmas as the Church has understood and understands them? The Church has always understood and understands the dogma in question to mean "without the laver of regeneration or the desire of it" The Church has always understood and transmitted the clearly expressed doctrine of the Decree on Justification that those who die justified and sanctified by baptism "or the desire of it" inherit eternal life -- yet you disagree with the constant teaching of the Church on this point of dogma. Are you aware that just because the word «aut» can sometimes mean "and" as well as "or" is absolutely of no consequence here? The term "votum" is always employed in reference to the fulfillment of some future deed or duty, and therefore cannot be correctly translated in this context as "the laver of regeneration and the desire of it"; as if one being baptized at present could absurdly have the simultaneous desire to receive it at some time in the future. Your disagrerment is a direct denial of an infallibly defined teaching of the Council of Trent, and of the infallible teaching of the ordinary magisterium. By your obstinate denial of the defined dogma, you place yourself under the «anathema» (Canon 33 Decree on Justification) and outside the Church.