Is Feeneyism Catholic? - Society of St. Pius X

18 IS F EENEYISM C ATHOLIC?
from yourselves, for it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). For those
who say that it is a natural faith by which we believe in God,
teach that all those who are separated from the Church of Christ
are, in a certain sense, believers. 22
Note that this last sentence is the condemnation of Karl Rahner,
who teaches that everyone is an implicit Christian. (A good
missionary answered one day, “and many theologians are implicit
pagans!”) Note also the insistence of the Council on grace, rather
than on the character of baptism.
And the grace of Christ cannot be had without the Faith, true
Faith, of course, which is the Catholic Faith.
IS BAPTISM OF DESIRE VERY COMMON?
It is a common opinion among Liberals that there are “millions
upon millions” (Fr. Most’s article, The Wanderer, February 5,
1987) who receive this baptism of desire.
Did these Liberals go into mission lands? If you talk with missionaries,
you will be astonished to see how much the people to
whom they went to preach Christ really needed Him. Pagan
Rome was the “Mistress of all errors” (St. Leo the Great). Some
Indians in Latin America, before the arrival of the missionaries,
had human sacrifices. In New Caledonia, they were eating each
other; in Africa they were hating each other (tribal hatred and
families’ hatred were passed from generation to generation!);
when the civilized governments left some of these countries by an
irrational “decolonization” it happened that one tribe systematically
wiped out another (e.g., in Biafra). In all these countries, before
the arrival of the missionaries, sorcerers were ruling, i.e., the
Devil through these sorcerers. And our Western countries were no
better: remember the abominable corruption of the Greeks and
Romans before the arrival of the Apostles, described by St. Paul
(Rom. 1:22-32).
And in our modern world, departing more and more from
God, from Christ, one can see the increase of violence, impurities,
drugs, injustices, thefts, culminating in abortion, euthanasia, etc.
Many missionaries, including the American martyrs, were
martyred by those to whom they preached. Our Liberals do not
22 Dz. 178.