My knowledge of 'Feeneyism' must be limited to Google, but it seems that he was sanctioned for disobedience, ie. not complying with a demand to stop his interpretation of 'outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation' and not for the statement itself. Could you elaborate for me please what Fenneyism is and how it was in conflict with what the Catholic Church actually teaches on the matter? Thanks.
“My knowledge of ‘Feeneyism’ must be limited to Google, but it seems that he was sanctioned for disobedience, ie. not complying with a demand to stop his interpretation of ‘outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation’ and not for the statement itself. Could you elaborate for me please what Fenneyism is and how it was in conflict with what the Catholic Church actually teaches on the matter? Thanks.”
There is a split of opinion among Catholics as to just what “Extra Ecclesiam Nullus Omnino Salvatur” really means. The Roman Catholics say that it means no salvation outside the bounds of the Catholic Church. Melkite Catholics, at least some of them and some Maronites and some Byzantine Rite types, say, like most of us Orthodox Catholics, that we know salvation is found within the bounds of the Catholic Church but cannot say whether it is found outside those bonds because we don’t know where the Spirit chooses to go.
Here on FR there is the unfortunate limitation of the word “Catholic” to the particular Church of Rome, as in Roman Catholic. But there are all sorts of particular churches within the Catholic Church, among which are the Orthodox Churches. Feeney denied, and some here on FR, today, deny that. The pope doesn’t.