Msgr. Todd J. Lajiness, Rector, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit agrees with Ralph Martin, Robert Fastiggi and Phillip Blosser : no physically visible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I
AUGUST 12, 2017
Rev. Msgr. Todd J. Lajiness, Rector and President of the Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit agrees with professors Ralph Martin, Robert Fastiggi and Phillip Blosser : no physically visible cases of BOD, BOB and I.I
REV. MSGR. TODD J. LAJINESS, RECTOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE SACRED HEART MAJOR SEMINARY, DETROIT AGREES WITH PROFESSORS RALPH MARTIN, ROBERT FASTIGGI AND PHILLIP BLOSSER - THERE ARE NO PHYSICALLY VISIBLE CASES OF THE BAPTISM OF DESIRE(BOD), BAPTISM OF BLOOD (BOB) AND BEING SAVED IN INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE (I.I) IN 2017. He is confirming what is common knowledge for us human beings.Invisible people cannot be visible at the same time.People in Heaven are generally not visible on earth to the mass of people in 2017.They would be known only to God. I have been sending Msgr. Lajiness and the faculty members these blog posts and no one has disagreed with me or correct an error in anything I have written. No one, as expected, has said that people in Heaven are visible on earth or that we can see the dead, who are now in Heaven, saved with BOD, BOB and I.I.It is obvious that we humans cannot meet on earth someone who is in Heaven allegedly saved with the BOD, BOB and I.I. Neither can we say that any particular person in 2017 will be going to Heaven without the baptism of water in the Catholic Church and instead will be saved with BOD, BOB and I.I. So there is no denial, correction or clarification from Msgr.Todd J. Lajiness who has completed a Licentiate in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas(Angelicum), Rome in 2000.He also earned a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Angelicum in 2002. According to his bio data on the seminary website the young Rector's professional activities include being a member of the Board of Commissioners for the Association of Theological Schools and also working in close collaboration with ATS on accreditation visits to seminaries throughout the USA.Additionally, he serves as the President of the National Association of Catholic Schools. I don't expect him to say anything extraordinary like - there is a dead man seen walking on the streets of Detroit saved without the baptism of water. It may be mentioned that the new Rector of the Pontifical University of St.Anselm, Rome,Fr.Stefano Visintini osb, has said that there are no known cases of BOD, BOB and I.I and so they are not objective exceptions to the centuries old interpretation of the dogma EENS. They do not contradict EENS as it was known to St. Benedict. Archbishop Thomas E.Gullickson has the same message and a few years back he called upon the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) to accept Vatican Council II. He would be referring to Vatican Council II ( Feeneyite), the interpretation which does not mix up hypothetical cases as being objectively seen in the present times.So LG 16, LG 14, LG 8, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22, AG 7, AG 11 etc being theoretical and hypothetical would not contradict the dogma EENS and the old ecclesiology of the Church.There would be no break with the Syllabus of Errors.
THE PROBLEM But even though all of us agree that there are no known exceptions to the dogma EENS and that BOD, BOB and I.I are not objective to be exceptions, while Lumen Gentium 16 ( invincible ingnorance) would also not be a rupture with the dogma EENS, since it refers to a hypothetical case, there still is a problem.It's a big problem.
THEY HAVE TO TEACH IRRATIONAL REASONING The problem is that professors Ralph Martin andRobert Fastiggi would agree with us here too, invisible people cannot be visible exceptions to EENS, however when they teach theology they affirm Vatican Council II as a rupture with Tradition.It is a rupture with Feeneyite EENS and the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX. Since they infer that Lumen Gentium 16 etc refer to non- hypothetical cases, which are explicit exceptions to the dogma EENS, as it was known to the missionaries in the 16th century.
THEOLOGY- DEGREES GIVEN TO THOSE WHO ACCEPT IRRATIONALITY So they approve of academic degrees in theology being given to those who interpret Vatican Council II with the irrationality( invisible cases are visible exceptions to traditional EENS).This is irrational and non traditional and is also approved by Msgr.Todd J. Lajiness
EXAMPLES OF SACRED HEART SEMINARY HERESY 1. The faculty have changed the interpretation of the dogma EENS or rejected it. This is heresy. 2. They are not interpreting and affirming Vatican Council II without the irrationality. Then the Council would be in harmony with traditional EENS. This is again heresy. 3. They interpret the Nicene Creed with the same irrationality and so the understanding of the Nicene Creed changes. This is first class heresy. For me it is 'I believe in one known baptism for the forgiveness of sins, it is the baptism of water'. For the seminary faculty it is 'I believe in three or more known baptisms for the forgiveness of sins, desire, blood,invincible ignorance, seeds of the word etc, and they exclude the baptism of water in the Catholic Church.' RUPTURE WITH THE PAST MAGISTERIUM So with the confusion created by their philosophical reasoning, they profess and teach a new irrational and non traditional theology which results in new doctrines which are accepted by the magisterium but are heretical. They are a rupture with the past magisterium of the Catholic Church.
THEY COULD AFFIRM THE FAITH WITHOUT THE IRRATIONALITY They could simply state that as Catholics, they believe that the present reasoning in philosophy and theology is not the work of the Holy Spirit. So they affirm all magisterial documents without the irrational premise which created the non traditional conclusion. 1.They could state instead, that they affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as it was known to the magisterium and missionaries in the 16 th century for example. 2.They affirm Vatican Council II without the irrational premise and so the Council is in harmony with the dogma EENS as it was known over the centuries.They reject Vatican Council II as a rupture with the old ecclesiology of the Church. 3.They affirm the Nicene Creed and understand that it means, we Catholics believe in only one known baptism for the forgiveness of sins and it is only the baptism of water. There are no known cases of the baptism of desire, blood and invincible ignorance, with or without the baptism of water.' 4.They could affirm the Catechism of the Catholic Church(1994) and interpret it with BOD, BOB and I.I as referring to only hypothetical cases. They cannot be anything else.So there is nothing in the Catechism of the Catholic Church to contradict the dogma EENS as it was known over the centuries. 5.They could affirm the first past of the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 which is traditional and they could reject the second part of the Letter, which contradicts the first part by assuming BOD,BOB and I.I refer to visible exceptions to Feeneyite EENS.-Lionel Andrades