Is Feeneyism Catholic? - Society of St. Pius X

28 IS F EENEYISM C ATHOLIC?
tion, and that of our neighbor, more than we want it ourselves:
He died on the Cross for it!
On the other hand, we know His perfect justice. All those
who are good go to heaven, all those who are wicked go to hell;
only the good go to heaven, only the wicked go to hell. And the
good are good by the grace of Christ, the wicked are wicked by
their own wickedness. 35
Modern man rejects guilt; he does not want to acknowledge
his own guilt, and has a bad tendency to excuse the criminal and
incriminate the victim. But his excuses will have no value at the
Last Judgment!
As to know how many are saved, and how many are not
saved, and why so many souls are lost, is the mystery of the Divine
choice of His elect, which we must adore and not discuss!
O man, who art thou that replieth against God? Shall the
thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me
thus? Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same
lump, to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his
power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted
for destruction, that he might shew the riches of his glory on
the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?…
(Rom. 9:20-23).
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge
of God! How incomprehensible are His judgments, and
how unsearchable His ways! For who hath known the mind of
the Lord? Or who hath been His counselor? Or who hath first
given to Him, and recompense shall be made Him? For of Him,
and by Him, and in Him, are all things: to Him be glory for ever.
Amen (Rom. 11:33-36).
To the question, “Lord, are they few that are saved?” Our
Lord answered: “Strive to enter by the narrow gate!” (Lk. 13:24).
To this speculative question, Our Lord gave a practical answer, as
St. Paul: “Know you not that they that run in a race, all run in-
35 God is the first cause of all good; man must cooperate in good works, he is a
second cause of them, in dependence on God. But God is not the first cause
of evil: it is the free creature that is responsible for sin and evil. Since good is
above evil, it is easy to understand that the first cause of good is above the
first cause of evil.