Is Feeneyism Catholic? - Society of St. Pius X

104 IS F EENEYISM C ATHOLIC?
protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession was left
unaided!” by granting the prayer of His Mother at the request of
Fr. Augustine Marie of the Blessed Sacrament 154 for the conversion
and salvation of his mother by baptism of desire.
Therefore do not argue one miracle of God against another!
NECESSITY OF THE MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH
The argument goes thus: a fallible magisterium is not capable
of proposing the truths of Faith in such a way that we adhere to
them absolutely as we ought to adhere to the truth revealed by
God. Only an infallible magisterium can do so. Now such a magisterium
is found only in the Catholic Church. Therefore, outside
the Catholic Church there is no supernatural virtue of Faith possible.
The first answer is to note that this does not apply to catechumens,
since they received the teaching of the Faith from the Catholic
Church! So this is not an objection against baptism of blood
and baptism of desire for explicit catechumens.
We concede that any other “churches,” including the Orthodox
churches, not having such an infallible magisterium, are not
adequate channels of Divine Revelation, so as to assure the motive
of Faith, which is on the authority of God, which is not found in
these churches. They present the object of Faith, but not with the
authority required for an assent of Faith. How could one know
that the Scriptures come from God, if it is not presented by a
Church speaking in the name of God, with a special mission to
teach? Our Lord gave this mission to His living apostles: “Go,
teach all nations...” This mission is continued from century to
century in that Church which has been founded by Christ, not
among those who separated themselves from it. Thus any church
that cannot show her historical link with Christ–her apostolicity–
cannot speak with the authority of Christ.
The conclusion from the above is that no other church can be
a means of salvation, contrary to what the innovators of Vatican II
say.
However, that does not prevent God from giving special interior
lights that give together both the knowledge of the object to
154 See first example, p.84.