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    Clarification on the doctrines of Baptism of Desire and Blood from the Saint Benedict Center, Still River, Massachusetts. The Saint Benedict Center in Still River, Massachusetts is officially approved by the Diocese of Worcester. This short work sheds some light of the legality of the so-called "Feeneyite position" in the Catholic Church. In the Diocese of Worcester, there are three religious houses whose members believe and actively defend Father Feeney’s strict defense of “no salvation outside the Church.” Additionally, they all defend Father Feeney’s good name. Those three houses are St. Benedict’s Abbey, St. Ann’s House, and Saint Benedict Center. The Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey recently wrote a book defending Father Feeney, Harvard to Harvard. He remains a Benedictine Abbot — a prelate of the Catholic Church — in good standing.

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    Clarification on Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood

    From Saint Benedict Center, Still River

    The opinions of baptism and blood and desire as currently held are not de fide. There has never
    been a solemn declaration on the issue. Trent said that the desire for the Sacrament of Baptism could justify
    but never said it could save. In fact it said if anyone says that Baptism is not necessary for salvation, let
    him be anathema. It likewise states that “true and natural water” is necessary in Baptism. Saint Thomas
    along with many other theologians teach that Baptism does more than free one from Original sin. It
    significantly gives birth to a new member of the Church. He taught that even if one were sanctified in the
    womb, water baptism would still be necessary in order to receive the indelible character of the sacrament
    and to be incorporated into the Church. Catechisms and the ordinary magisterium of the Church are not to
    be held in a contrary sense to solemnly defined definitions spoken ex cathedra.

    The concept of baptism of desire in the mind of most bishops today is that nice people can get to
    Heaven by being honest and sincere in their beliefs and disbeliefs and the fact is that the Church has not
    always held the firm conviction of the saving force of baptism of blood. The Council of Florence defined ex
    cathedra: “No one, whatever his almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed his blood for the name of
    Christ, can be saved unless he has persevered within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” As
    mentioned in the recent issues of From the HouseTops, none of those who died for Christ in Uganda were
    declared saints except those members of the Catholic Church.

    This may not carry any weight because there is no documentation but in our visits to Rome and the
    CDF during the time when Cardinal Ratzinger was prefect, we were assured that Father Feeney’s position
    was tenable without detriment to our standing in the Church. To authorities there, the question of BOD
    and BOB is still debatable. Father Feeney was not asked to retract his position and our community was not
    required to change our stand to receive the blessing of the Church.

    So, in response to your questions: 1) One should accept the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church
    except when it contradicts the higher authority. 2) No, one does not have to assent to everything in the
    NEW Catechism anymore than one has to attend the Novus Ordo as opposed to the Traditional Mass, or
    accept the new translations of the Bible, the new forms of the sacraments, etc. The new rite of Baptism did
    away with the exorcisms—still valid yes but why all the changes? In the New Catechism, the doctrine of
    Limbo is subverted. Here was something definitely held from the beginning by all that unbaptized infants
    did not obtain the Beatific Vision. The Truths of the Faith cannot change with the times. 3) No Catechumen
    can be saved by BOD of and by itself. There are a number of instances where saints have raised
    catechumens to life in order to baptize them.

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