Is Feeneyism Catholic? - Society of St. Pius X

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . . . . . . . . . .1
INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION . . . . . . . . . . . .5
EXPOSITION OF THE DOCTRINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
There Is a Law Established by Jesus Christ, That Every Man
Must Be Baptized in Order to Be Saved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
God Is Not Bound by the Laws He Has Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
God Does Sometimes Work Such Miracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
One Who Has Received Sanctifying Grace
Before the Actual Reception of the Sacrament
Is Not Dispensed from the Law of God,
Obliging Him to Receive the Sacrament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
It May and Did Happen That Some Died
Before They Could Fulfill This Good Will,
and “God Counts the Will for the Fact” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
“Baptism of Desire” Is Not a Sacrament;
It Does Not Have the Exterior Sign
Required in the Sacraments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
One Must Insist Upon the Fact That
the Interior Sanctifying Grace, with the Virtues
of Catholic Faith, Hope and Charity,
Is Absolutely Necessary for Salvation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
One Direct Consequence of What Has Been Said
So Far Is That These Souls Belong
to the Mystical Body of Christ,
Which Is the Catholic Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
How Does One Receive This Sanctifying Grace? . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SOME LIBERAL ERRORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Does Sincerity with Ignorance Save? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
What About the “Good Heathen”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Is Baptism of Desire Very Common? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Faith Entirely Implicit? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
“I Was Hungry…” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24