Fr. Denis Fahey believed that Jews who reject Christ can be saved

Heresy of the Week, Week of 9/26/03
By Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Peter Dimond
For more see: Heresies of the Week Relating to the Salvation Dogma

Fr. Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation (1953),  p. 52 “The Jews, as a nation, are objectively aiming at giving society a direction which is in complete opposition to the order God wants. It is possible that a member of the Jewish Nation, who rejects Our Lord, may have the supernatural life which God wishes to see in every soul, and so be good with the goodness God wants, but objectively, the direction he is seeking to give to the world is opposed to God and to that life, and therefore is not good. If a Jew who rejects our Lord is good in the way God demands, it is in spite of the movement in which he and his nation is engaged.”

Comment: As we documented in issue #6 of our magazine, the denial of the dogma Outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation – which has been the key to the Great Apostasy we are now living through – was well in place before Vatican II.  Here we see the famous Irish priest Fr. Denis Fahey, whose writings are lauded by many who call themselves “traditional Catholics,” teaching that Jews who reject Our Lord Jesus Christ can be saved.  This is truly an abomination. 

By making such a statement, Fr. Fahey reveals (unfortunately) that he wasn’t a Catholic, but a blatant heretic.  If Fr. Fahey had spent more time getting to know the truth of Jesus Christ, His Gospel and His dogma, rather than writing large volumes on “the forces of organized naturalism,” he would have discovered that the core focus of the entire Gospel – and the very central truth of the universe along with the dogma of the Trinity – is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that you must believe in Him to have eternal life. 

“For God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in Him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.” (John 3:16)

“He that believeth in the Son hath life everlasting: but he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36)

To assert that one can attain salvation while rejecting Jesus Christ is to say that one can attain salvation while rejecting salvation itself. It is almost the worst heresy that one could utter. 

“Now this is life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 17:3)

“I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and mine know me.” (John 10:14)

“And he said to them [the Jews]: You are from beneath, I am from above.  You are of this world, I am not of this world.  Therefore, I said to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sin.” (John 8:23-24)

“Amen, Amen, I say to you: he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber… I am the door.” (John 10:1, 9)

“Jesus saith to them: I am the way, and the truth, and the life.  No man cometh to the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6)

“If anyone abideth not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth.” (John 15:6)

“And when he [the Paraclete] is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment.  Of sin indeed: because they have not believed in me.” (John 15:8-9)

“For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I should give testimony to the truth: every one who is of the truth, heareth my voice.” (John 18:37)

 “… the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ… Nor is there salvation in any other.  For there is no other name under heaven, given to men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.– But the Catholic faith is this, that we worship one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in unity... Therefore let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning the Trinity.
     “But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believe also in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ...the Son of God is God and man...– This is the Catholic faith; unless each one believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.”

For more see: Heresies of the Week Relating to the Salvation Dogma