Word: dogma
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...While talking to a Catholic Group recently, I was shocked to a realization of what is happening to the faith under the rising wave of liberalism. I happened to mention casually the Catholic dogma, 'There is no salvation outside the (Catholic) Church. Some acted as though I were uttering an innovation they had never heard before, and others had the doctrine so completely covered with reservations and vicious distinctions as to ruin its meaning and destroy the effect of its challenge. In a few minutes, the room was swarming with slogans of liberalism and sentimentalism. Taken in their totality...
Father Feeney is currently waiting for and "ex cathedra" pronouncement ("infallible pronouncement") from the Pope on the current dogma to be followed. He has announced that he has no intention of harming the Church, and will certainly recant. "In any event,' 'he says, "I will remain a true Catholic always...
Father Feeney, believing firmly that there is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church and that any other doctrine is a misinterpretation of the true dogma, has built St. Benedict's Center up from a recreation hall to a school. His scholars join in "bull sessions" like those of the early days and answer students' questions with certainty. Father Feeney said they answer questions the average college student would not be willing to put to a priest...
...Benedict's Center under the administration of Father Feeney considers that it is doing a charity to those Catholic students who want to have the dogma of their Church clarified. "Students are too intelligent to listen to the mumbo jumbo of the interpretations--the saying of one thing in Latin and another in English," Father Feeney says. "They want their Church principles made as clear to them as the wording of the Constitution of the United States...
...remainder of the archdiocese headed by Archbishop Cushing follows the wording of the official interpretation of Catholic dogma which is found in a book revised every ten years called "The Baltimore Catechism." The most recent revision of this work occurred last April during the height of the controversy, though there was no connection between the two. The relevant part of the Catechism says in effect that all that possess God's grace, even if they are not actual members of the Church, are considered as belonging to the soul of the Church and thus can achieve salvation...