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Thus we can see the full program: men of good will are saved without being Catholic, but they must help with various secular tasks; and the new religion will have no doctrines or ideologies, only mercy and the willingness to collaborate with all men of good will to solve the world’s problems.

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[Verginius Rufus]

When Pope John XXIII's Mater et Magistra was issued, William F. Buckley's National Review came out with the rejoinder, "Mater si, Magistra no." I don't know if that Buckley's personal contribution.

[Campion]

If Mr. Morrison is going to try to say that Vatican II is heretical because it departed from the strict Feeneyite interpretation of "extra ecclesiam nulla salus" (IOW, only professing Catholics can be saved, period), he's not demonstrating much theological acumen or understanding of the (pre-VC2) tradition. No wonder ...

Here, for instance, we have a summary from a 1993 article from the (non-Catholic) Christian Research Journal

... he has to quote a Protestant (and often very anti-Catholic) publication to try to make his point. The "Christian Research Journal" is not, and has never been, a reliable source on what the Catholic Church believes.

Feeneyism was rejected by the Holy Office in their response disciplining Feeney in 1948. (To be clear, it is not heretical; it is a "tolerated opinion". Feeney was disciplined specifically for saying that his superior, Cardinal Spellman, was a heretic for rejecting it.)

Practically all reputable Catholic theologians prior to VC2 agreed that (at least some) non-Catholics could be saved by following the grace they were given, on the grounds of "invincible ignorance," believing, as Pio Nono and other said, that God punishes only _voluntary_ fault.