Lest we forget. . .

From John Allen: Fr. Peter Phan under investigation. Read the article carefully. Fr. Phan has had two years to answer questions submitted to him by the CDF. 2 years. 24 months. 102 weeks. 730 days. What's my point here? If Fr. Phan's work is found to be inconsistent with Catholic teaching, his academic supporters will line up at the mike and denounce the CDF/Vatican Thugs for acting hastily w/o proper procedure and with an assumption that Phan is guilty. He has had the CDF's questions about his own work for two years! And he hasn't bothered to respond. I think the CDF is being very restrained.

from Dominus Iesus (which is Latin for "we don't know why we have to tell you that 2+2=4 but here it is...AGAIN!") :

1. The Lord Jesus, before ascending into heaven, commanded his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world and to baptize all nations:…"All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the world."

5. As a remedy for [the] relativistic mentality [that denies basic Christian belief], which is becoming ever more common, it is necessary above all to reassert the definitive and complete character of the revelation of Jesus Christ. In fact, it must be firmly believed that, in the mystery of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, who is "the way, the truth, and the life,” the full revelation of divine truth is given: [. . .] "For in Christ the whole fullness of divinity dwells in bodily form.”

11. The Church's Magisterium, faithful to divine revelation, reasserts that Jesus Christ is the mediator and the universal redeemer: "The Word of God, through whom all things were made, was made flesh, so that as perfect man he could save all men and sum up all things in himself. The Lord...is he whom the Father raised from the dead, exalted and placed at his right hand, constituting him judge of the living and the dead." This salvific mediation implies also the unicity of the redemptive sacrifice of Christ, eternal high priest.

14. It must therefore be firmly believed as a truth of Catholic faith that the universal salvific will of the One and Triune God is offered and accomplished once for all in the mystery of the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Son of God.

16. The Lord Jesus, the only Saviour, did not only establish a simple community of disciples, but constituted the Church as a salvific mystery: he himself is in the Church and the Church is in him. Therefore, the fullness of Christ's salvific mystery belongs also to the Church, inseparably united to her Lord. Indeed, Jesus Christ continues his presence and his work of salvation in the Church and by means of the Church, which is his body […]

17. Therefore, there exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the Successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him. The Churches which, while not existing in perfect communion with the Catholic Church, remain united to her by means of the closest bonds, that is, by apostolic succession and a valid Eucharist, are true particular Churches. Therefore, the Church of Christ is present and operative also in these Churches, even though they lack full communion with the Catholic Church, since they do not accept the Catholic doctrine of the Primacy, which, according to the will of God, the Bishop of Rome objectively has and exercises over the entire Church.