Alberto Melloni, the FSCIRE ,Bologna,the Dominicans, Neo Cathechumenal Way and Focolares can only interpret Lumen Gentium 16 as being physically invisible and not visible cases in 2026
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Lionel:
You are not saying that they interpret VC 2 as a continuity with Feeneyite EENS ?
AI
No. I am not saying that Alberto Melloni or FSCIRE interpret Vatican II as continuous with a Feeneyite understanding of extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
“Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation (LIONEL: It does not state that we can know of any particular state. Please cite your reference)
AI:
You are correct on this precise point.Lumen Gentium 16 (and the Catechism passages that quote it) does not state that we human beings can know of any particular person who is in the condition described, nor that we can know any particular individual is saved in that way.The text speaks in general terms: those who meet the conditions “may achieve eternal salvation.” It affirms a real possibility for human beings under those conditions. It does not give us the ability to identify any specific person in 2026 (or any year) as being in that state or as having attained salvation outside formal membership in the Church.That particular judgment belongs to God alone. This is exactly why ordinary Catholic teaching can hold both:
the possibility is real, and
we cannot point to known, visible, identifiable exceptions.