Bad Books on Salvation
“Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the
door into the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a
robber.”
- Saint John 10:1 -
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J. M. I.
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The Precious Blood of Jesus Christ,
The Grace of the God of the Holy Catholic Church,
The Mediation of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Seat of Wisdom & Crusher
of Heretics,
The Protection of Saint Joseph Patriarch of the Holy Family,
The Intercession of Saint Michael the Archangel
and
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Richard Joseph Michael Ibranyi
“To Jesus Through Mary”
“Judica me Deus, et discerne causam meam de
gente non sancta: ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me.”
“Soli Deo Gloria”
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council,
1215: “With our hearts we believe
and with our lips we confess but one Church, not that of the heretics, but the
Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside which we believe that no one
is saved.”
Pope Boniface VIII, Bull Unam Sanctum, 1302: “With Faith urging us we are forced to believe and to hold the one, holy, Catholic Church and that, apostolic, and we firmly believe and simply confess this (Church) outside which there is no salvation nor remission of sin…”
Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Bull Cantate Domino, 1441: “The most Holy Roman Catholic Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews, 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 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.”
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Introduction and Abbreviations
Past Catechisms Condemn the Salvation Heresy
The Catechism of the Council Trent (The Roman
Catechism)
Catechisms that Teach the Salvation Heresy
An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism on
Christian Doctrine, 1892
Revised Baltimore Catechism, No. 2, 1941
A Compendium of Catechetical Instruction
(Catechism of Pope Pius X), 1910
Clemens Brentano’s record of Catharine
Emmerich’s Visions
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus
Christ, 1833
Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels…, 1874
Abridged Course of Religious Instruction for
the use of Catholic Colleges and Schools (c. 1880’s)
The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, 1952
Radio Replies (1938, 1940, 1942)
Rev. Heribert Jone, O.F.M. cap., J.C.D.
Moral Theology (1929, 1956, 1961)
The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of
the Jewish Nation (1953)
N.O.
- Nihil Obstat
C.L. – Censor Librorum
C.D. - Censor Deputatus
Imp. – Imprimatur
I will be adding to the evidence
in this chapter and will put it in a separate Supplement chapter at the end of
the book. Those who have the book can order an updated version of the Supplement.
What is presented in this chapter is enough to prove the truth of the matter,
but for the record it is important to expose the heretics that wrote bad books,
books that contain heresy, along with the censors and bishops who approved
them. In this way we can trace the infiltration of heresy in bad books and the
heretics who are responsible. If anyone has evidence of good or bad books send
it to me along with the author of the book, the censor, and the bishop who gave
it an imprimatur. If it is credible, I will add it.
Important Note: This note regards books with imprimaturs that are not on the extinct “Index of Forbidden Books” and contain notoriously heretical statements, not ones that can be given an orthodox interpretation. Enemies of the Catholic Church have been known to tamper with the Catholics’ written or oral words by injecting heresy into them. They alter words by either additions or deletions. Being the enemies have more power than ever before, it logically follows that they have corrupted many good Catholic books with their heresies. Therefore, regarding bad books listed by me, a further investigation is necessary to see if there is notorious heresy in the authors’ original texts. Until then and if it can be proven that an author taught the orthodox position elsewhere, there is a strong suspicion that the heretical text attributed to him was added by someone else; thus, he should be given the benefit of the doubt. However, others must still be warned of the heresy in the books attributed to such authors.
Even if an author did not believe in a heresy,
he would still be guilty of heresy if he inserted it into his book to appease
the heretical bishop who gave it an imprimatur. In this case, the author would
share in the heretical guilt of the bishop. Never are Catholics to obey sinful
commands and help others to propagate sin. If they do, they share in the guilt.
Question/Statement:
Catechisms teach certain men during the New Covenant era can be saved without explicit faith in Jesus Christ, the Incarnation, and the Most Holy Trinity. They teach certain men can be saved who lived and died worshipping false gods and practicing false religions, which includes Protestants and Schismatics. Even The Catechism of Christian Doctrine, also known as the Pius X Catechism, teaches this. Also, many other books with imprimaturs teach the same. Being catechisms and books with imprimaturs are infallible, this must be believed under pain of heresy.
RJMI Answer:
· Salvation Heretics: Salvation heretics believe in the Salvation heresy that teaches certain men since the coming of Jesus Christ and the promulgation of the New Covenant who lived and died worshipping false gods and practicing false religions, or atheists who do not believe in any god, can be saved. Thus, they also heretical teach certain men can be saved without explicit faith in Jesus Christ, the Incarnation, and the Most Holy Trinity. (See: The Salvation Dogma, “Outside the Church there is No Salvation”)
Bishop George Hay at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, and in the 19th century Orestes Augustine Brownson and Fr. Michael Müller, C.SS.R., along with others, wrote against the heretics who were beginning to introduce the Salvation heresy into Church teaching instruments. The writings of Bishop Hay, Brownson, and Fr. Müller that condemn the Salvation heresy have imprimaturs, and they oppose other authors’ books with imprimaturs that contain the Salvation heresy. Now, one or the other of the books teaches heresy, and all the books have imprimaturs. One set are good books with imprimaturs, and the other are bad, heretical books with imprimaturs. Therefore, an imprimatur does not mean a book is infallible. An imprimatur is only as good as the bishop who gives it. Thus, books with imprimaturs can contain errors and even heresy. Fr. Michael Müller teaches in his book with an imprimatur that other so-called Catholic books with imprimaturs contained the salvation heresy.
Fr. Michael Müller, C.SS.R., The Catholic Dogma, 1888: “Preface: …Now is it not something very shocking to see such condemned errors and perverse opinions proclaimed as Catholic doctrine in a Catholic newspaper, and in books written and recently published by Catholics?”[1]
It does no good to use bad books with imprimaturs to defend heresy, especially when other evidence is overwhelming. And, most especially when the heresy denies a very basic dogma of the faith that even a Catholic child can and must know, as taught in the baptismal vow and creeds of the Church. Such a heresy that denies a basic dogma goes against common sense and reason illuminated by God’s grace, which makes it possible for all true Catholics with the use of reason to detect and reject, no matter who or how many people teach it. Although some articles of faith cannot be known by reason, they cannot contradict reason, and that is what the Salvation heresy does regarding a basic dogma. Such a heresy would be most repugnant to pious ears and everything the faith stands for. Ultimately, past infallible papal decrees take precedence over every other teaching, and it is them that must be believed under pain of heresy. (See: my FAQ, What Catholics Must Believe)
That is not to say prelates and authorized teachers of the Catholic faith are not heretics for denying deeper dogmas. They are, because their position demands that they know the deeper dogmas. However, a layman may not be able to detect the denial of a deeper dogma if it has not been taught to him. (See: Strange Voices, “Book One, Basic and Deeper Dogmas”)
The first stage of the denial of the salvation dogma was to form a theology that allows for certain men who lived and died in Protestant and Schismatic religions to be saved. This was the first heresy that seduced bad Catholics, because it was easier for them to believe a non-Catholic baptized person who professes belief in Jesus Christ, the Incarnation, and Most Holy Trinity can be saved. Once they embraced this heresy, the next step was to get them to believe this also applies to unbaptized persons who do not profess belief in Jesus Christ, the Incarnation, and the Most Holy Trinity. (See: The Salvation Dogma, “Root of the Denial of the Salvation Dogma”)
Firstly, catechisms are not infallible (See: The Baptism Controversy, “Catechisms are not Infallible”). There are no catechisms that teach the Salvation heresy from the time of the first catechism until the 19th century; rather, all of them condemn it. Therefore, this heresy has no link with tradition and is presented as a new revelation, and revelation that constitutes the object of the Catholic faith ended with the death of the last apostle. (See: The Salvation Dogma, “The Salvation Heresy is a New Revelation”)
To my knowledge, the first time the Salvation heresy appeared in catechisms was the last half of the 19th century. The Salvation heresy has no link with tradition; rather, the tradition of the Church condemns it: the teachings of the saints, all the catechisms before the 19th century, and most importantly all the infallible teachings of the popes. Contrary to what Salvation heretics believe, Popes Pius IX and Pius XII did not teach the Salvation heresy. (See: The Salvation Dogma, “Pope Pius IX on Salvation” and “Pope Pius XII on Salvation”)
The Catechism of Trent (The Roman Catechism), 16th century: “The Church is holy because she is united to Christ the Lord, the fountain of all holiness… Moreover, the Church alone has the legitimate worship of sacrifice and the salutary use of the Sacrament, which are the efficacious instruments of divine grace used by God to produce true holiness. Hence, to posses true holiness we must belong to this Church… All who desire eternal salvation must cling to her and embrace her, like those who entered the Ark to escape perishing in the Flood… The Ark of Noah holds a conspicuous place. It was built by the command of God in order that there might be no doubt that it was a symbol of the Church, which God so constituted that all who enter therein through Baptism may be safe from the danger of eternal death; while such as be outside the Church, like whose who were not in the Ark are overwhelmed by their own crimes… Since there is no expiation, no purity, no integrity in him over whom the Divine Name has not been invoked, we desire and pray that all mankind may abandon the darkness of their impious infidelity and, enlightened by the rays of divine light, come to recognize the power of this Name and look to it alone for true sanctity; and that, thus receiving the Sacrament of Baptism in the name of the holy and undivided Trinity, they may receive the fullness of sanctity from…God Himself… But what we most particularly ask… is that all may acknowledge and revere the Spouse of Jesus Christ, our Most Holy Mother the Church, in which alone is to be found the copious and inexhaustible fountain which cleanses and effaces all the stains of sin, and from which are drawn all the Sacraments of salvation and sanctification… To the Church alone, and to those whom she embraces in her bosom and holds in her arms, appertains the invocation of that Divine Name, outside which there is no other name under Heaven given to men whereby we must be saved.” (The Marks of The Church, Holy, Catholic, and Figures of the Church; Our Father Prayer, On Earth as it is in Heaven, “That Unbelievers May Be Converted,” and “That the Church may be recognized by all”)
The Roman Catechism does not teach the Salvation heresy; rather, it upholds the salvation dogma in the same sense as the popes infallibly defined it. This is another piece of evidence that condemns the Salvation heretics and their heretical catechisms, because their heresy contradicts the teaching found in the most authoritative of all catechisms, The Catechism of the Council of Trent. However, they are not heretics based on the authority of The Roman Catechism, because a catechism is not infallible; rather, they are heretics because they contradict an infallible dogma as defined by popes, which The Roman Catechism happens to reiterate. A Catholic can contradict a teaching in a catechism if that teaching is not a part of the solemn or ordinary magisterium, because catechisms are not infallible.
Title: An Explanation of the Baltimore
Catechism of Christian Doctrine, 1892
Authors: Rev. Thomas L. Kinkead
Publisher: Benzinger Brothers, 1892
N. O.: D. J. McMahon, C.L.
Imp. : +Michael Augustine, Archbishop of New York, New York, September
5, 1891
Approved by: Cardinal Gibbons, Most Rev. M. A. Corrigan, Most Rev.
William Henry Elder, Most Rev. P. J. Ryan, Right Rev. Dennis M. Bradley, Right
Rev. Thomas F. Brennan, Right Rev. H. Gabriels, Right Rev. Leo Haid, Right Rev.
John J. Keane, Right Rev. Wm. Geo. McCloskey, Right Rev. Camllus P. Maes, Right
Rev. Tobias Mullen, Right Rev. H.P. Northrop, Right Rev. Henry Joseph Richter,
Right Rev. S. V. Ryan, Rev. H. A. Brann, Rev. Richard Brennan, Rev. Andrew J.
Clancy, Rev. Chas H. Colton, Rev. M.J. Considine, Rev. J. Dougherty, Rev. John
F. Kearney, Rev. Michael J. Lqvelle, Rev. F. McCarthy, Rev. Edward T. McGinley,
Rev. Jos. H. McMahon, Rev. D.J. McMahon, Rev. Meister, Rev. J.F. Mendl, Rev.
C.M. O’Keefe, Rev. Wm. J. O’Kelly, Rev. W. Pardow, Rev. John T. Power, Rev. F.
Ryan, Rev. John J. Ward, Rev. Clarence E. Woodman, Brother Azarias.
An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine, pp. 131-133: *121. Q. Are all bound to belong to the Church? A. All are bound to belong to the Church, and he who knows the Church to be the true Church, and remains out of it, cannot be saved.” [The Explanation] “…If, then, we found a Protestant who never committed a mortal sin after Baptism, and who never had the slightest doubt about the truth of his religion, that person would be saved; because, being baptized, he is a member of the Church, and being free from mortal sin he is a friend of God and could not in justice be condemned to Hell.”
Comment on above heresy: A Protestant is a formal heretic, even if he has not heard of the Catholic religion, because he is responsible to detect the basic falsehoods in his false religion, which being aided by God’s grace he can easily do if he is of good will. It is the rejection of knowable falsehoods that would grant him further grace and enlightenment from God. A child with the use of reason can easily know a square peg does not fit into a round hole, even if he has not yet been presented with a square hole. “God our Saviour, Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. (1 Tim. 2:3-4) “[God] enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.” (Jn. 1:9) The knowledge of the truth includes rejecting the knowable falsehoods that all false religions contain.
And, if the Protestant does hear of the Catholic religion and does not believe it, then he has the additional sin of culpable unbelief. It is his own fault that he does not believe, because God certainly gives him the grace to believe. If he were not his fault for not believing after he heard the truth, then one would have to blame God’s grace as being insufficient to enlighten him so that he would believe the truth when it is presented to him. This above heresy in the An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism makes a mockery of God’s grace and power by implying God’s grace and power is insufficient to bring a man of good will to the knowledge of the truth and embrace it when he hears it. God’s grace is sufficient; man’s will is deficient! (See: Salvation Dogma: Method of Corruption)
Revised Edition of the BALTIMORE CATECHISM No. 2 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine 1941
“168. How can persons who are not members of the
Catholic Church be saved? Persons who are not members of the Catholic
Church can be saved if, through no fault of their own, they do not know that
the Catholic Church is the true Church, but they love God and try to do His
will, for in this way they are connected
with the Church by desire.”
Below is a related heresy is that men can be partially united to the Church. It teaches some men are full members of the Catholic Church, while others are not full members. For instance, a man can be a half member of the Catholic Church while his other half is not a member of the Catholic Church. One must then ask, “Where does this man go when he dies? Does half of him go to heaven and the other half go to hell?”
“169A. What conditions are necessary in order
that a person be a member of the Mystical Body in the full sense? In
order that a person be a member of the Mystical Body in the full sense, it
is necessary that he be baptized, that he profess the Catholic faith, and that
he neither separate himself from the Mystical Body nor be excluded by lawful
authority. And if he refuses to hear them, appeal to the Church, but if he
refuses to hear even the Church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the
publican. (Matthew 18:17)”
Title: The Baltimore Catechism No. 3, A
Catechism of Christian Doctrine prepared and enjoined by order of the Third
Plenary Council of Baltimore.
N. O.: Rev. Remigius LaFort, C. L.1901; Arthur Scanlan, C. L. 1921
Imps. : Archbishop John McCloskey of New York 1885; Archbishop Gibbons
Baltimore 1885; Archbishop Michael Augustine N.Y. 1901; Archbishop Patrick
Hayes N.Y. 1921.
“Q. 510. Is it ever possible for one to be saved who does not know the Catholic Church to be the true Church? A. It is possible for one to be saved who does not know the Catholic Church to be the true Church, provided that person (I) has been validly baptized; (2) firmly believes the religion he professes and practices to be the true religion, and (3) dies without the guilt of mortal sin on his soul.”
Below is a related heresy that teaches a man can belong to the soul of the Church while not belonging to the body of the Church. A Catholic may appear not to be in the body of the Church if he was unjustly excommunicated, while in fact he is in both the soul and body of the Church; although, he must honor the excommunication for the sake of the common good until proper Church authorities restore his good name. Also, a man may appear to be in the body of the Church, such as an occult (secret) heretic, when in reality he neither belongs to the soul or the body of the Church; although, as long as he remains an occult (secret) heretic he is allowed to function as a Catholic, even though he is not Catholic, for the sake of the common good. Never can anyone truly belong to the soul of the Church while not also truly belonging to the body of the Church