Is Feeneyism Catholic? - Society of St. Pius X

A NSWER TO OBJECTIONS 101
above, salvation is at the end of spiritual life; now the reception of
the water of baptism is certainly not the end of the spiritual life!
Does not the priest say to the newly baptized at the end of the
ceremony of baptism: “Keep your baptism above reproach. Keep
the commandments of God, so that when the Lord comes to His
marriage feast, you may meet him in the halls of heaven with all
His saints.” In other words, you are not yet arrived, you still have
to walk on the path of the commandments of God. To let the
people think that, with the water, their “justification has been
turned into salvation” leads them to think that they have reached
the end, they have nothing else to do: once saved, always saved.
This is true of the entry into heaven— once there, always there—
but it is not true of the grace of baptism: it can be lost.
The Council of Trent affirms that these incarnational requirements
are given to the soul in justification:
For, although no one can be just, but he to whom the merits
of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ are communicated, yet is
this done in the said justification of the impious when by the
merit of the same holy passion, the charity of God is poured
forth, by the Holy Spirit, in the hearts (Rom. 5:5) of those that
are justified, and is inherent therein: whence, man, through
Jesus Christ in whom he is ingrafted, receives, in the said justification,
together with the remission of sins, all these (gifts) infused
at once, faith, hope, charity. 147
For these “Incarnational requirements” for justification itself,
one needs the waters of baptism, re aut voto–in fact or at least in
desire, as Trent teaches.
Fr. Feeney wrote: “…the sinners, just and unjust,…” 148 There
is no such thing as a just sinner! Such a statement manifests an
erroneous understanding of justification!
UNFULFILLED AND FULFILLED JUSTICE
Fr. Feeney says: “Unfulfilled justice is the state of justification.
149 Fulfilled justice is the state of salvation.” 150 That “unful-
147 Sess. 6, Chap. 7, Dz. 800, TCT 564.
148 Bread of Life, p.16.
149 There is no such thing as a “state of justification.” Justification is defined by
Trent as a passage, not a state!
150 Bread of Life, p.118.