Is Feeneyism Catholic? - Society of St. Pius X

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deed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain!” (I
Cor. 9:24).
With Pope Pius XII, one can give to the above question the
following practical answer.
God does not want all these pagans to be damned, He wants
you to pray for them, He wants you to make sacrifices for them,
He wants you to “sanctify yourself for them” (Jn. 17:19); He
wants you “to go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost!” (Mt.
20:19).
Remember the words of our Lady to St. Catherine Labouré.
St. Catherine saw beams of light from the jewels on the hands of
our Lady going down towards the earth, and she noticed jewels
without such beams. Wondering about this, she asked our Lady,
who answered: “These are the graces men fail to ask of me!” Also
our Lady taught the children of Fatima: “Many souls go to hell
because there is no one to pray and make sacrifices for them!”
The treasure of Faith has not been given to you so that you
hide it in the earth like the useless servant (Mt. 25:25); you must
make it fructify, you must give it to others! It is a wonderful Providence
of God to call you to be His instrument in the work of
salvation of souls; if you fail to heed His call, then souls will be
lost because of you. Remember the words of God to Ezechiel:
If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare
it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted
from his wicked way and live: the same wicked man shall die in
his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand (Ez. 3:18).
Therefore those who make no effort to work for the conversion
of their neighbor to the true Faith of Christ, hiding their
spiritual torpor under a false notion of “salvation by invincible
ignorance,” have no right to criticize God in His providence; they
have only to blame their lack of zeal if they think there are “too
many” souls lost!
Those who pray, sacrifice themselves and work for the conversion
of souls will have the joy of seeing many souls returning to
Our Lord Jesus Christ; but they will also understand more easily
by their own experience that “the perverse are hard to be corrected,
and the number of fools is infinite” (Eccles. 1:15). They also
understand these words of Our Lord Jesus Christ: “Enter ye in at