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What does EENS stand for, please?

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

“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.)

“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews 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.)

And my dear friends, once again in these discussions—which are surely taking place somewhere out there and will continue to take place with the lay clergy of the post-Vatican II Church, it is worth making them realize how absurd it sounds when they accuse someone of schism. How absurd all these decrees and little decrees about excommunication sound. After all, for you, salvation is everywhere. After all, the post-conciliar Church proclaims that one can be saved without baptism. One can be saved as a Muslim, a pagan, or a Jew. Everyone will be in heaven anyway. You talk about separated brethren, and suddenly, when the topic of the Mass of all time comes up, that word pops out [snort] schism.

What is the problem of meeting with Cardinal Fernandez, given that Leo tasked him to do all the talking? Even if he is personally problematic, we are not Donatists, and given that the SSPX are not sedevacantists, I think it is only proper for the SSPX to meet up when called by the Roman authorities.