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From: Phil At: philange@juno.com
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The CCC: Questionable Help
The new Catechism of the Catholic Church has not helped me or my family on particulars where help was expected. I would like to describe the details to see if you or your readers agree. Publication of them will at least reduce expectations and disappointments on these points with readers having similar family problems of Faith. Product of my further research here may serve as replacement.
Let me describe the family and problems first. I am 73 with a 12 year Catholic education in a day when educators were entirely reputable, i.e. late 40s. We had 9 children, 4 of which had the same education mostly in the 80s. Of the remainder 4 had some Catholic elementary school. All 9 had Saturday CCD in a more reputable parish program. Six are now married, 1 mixed and 2 without benefit of Catholic clergy. 10 of our 13 grandchildren are baptized, one in a non-Catholic church.
Three have left Catholic practice and I have written to two; one son concerning eternal effects of his departure only twice in 13 years. My last and recent was asking baptism for his 1 year old. His reply was promising and tearfully endearing for its additional sentiments on Father’s Day.
I never wrote to my non practicing daughter but recently added a note to a Mass card I sent favoring her late son, who died in a ski accident. The circumstances are unusual: 13 years ago she gave this boy up for an open records adoption through a secular agency promising placement in a Catholic home. His obituary revealed he was Protestant Evangelical. In my note to my daughter I expressed regret and shock at seeing this, “Apparently some secular agencies consider one ‘Christian’ religion as good as another...”, then added some hope she valued the Mass card as we did years ago when I treasured our shared belief in the mercy of Purgatory.
Enter now one 38 year old daughter-in-law by my first son; she is a fully practicing Catholic, 4 children, home schooling them plus CCD. Let’s call her Sue, because she is now “suiting” me out of court for contributing to the “delinquency” of either of the above to whom I have written. Sue claims my religious criticisms to them have “pushed them farther out of the Church.” She doesn’t say which because she has some stated and privileged confidentiality with one or both (i.e. like doctor-patient or lawyer-client). She also adds in their defense that it was their choice (where have we heard that one before?) in their decision, as though untouchable.
Rather than get into who-said-what I questioned more her sense of sin in matching mine of these family events and others. I listed 6 very serious ones and asked if she thought any scandalous. In reply she turned to the CCC for its definition, extracted a faulty interpretation and used it against me. The CCC in #2284 says scandal “leads another to evil”. Sue implicitly insisted that it MUST culminate in sin, and an identical sin. Since she did not commit the same sin due to these events she could not admit to these as scandal, trashed my whole list. Then Sue suggested that I might have committed them and that’s why I thought they were scandalous. Remarkable!
But who would blame her? I can’t. It seems so plain by the text. The only reason I know better is that I have 35 year head start on learning the facts of Faith and know enough to be critical of the CCC. I know more about what it should mean and where it missed its mark. If only it had said, “Scandal MAY lead others to sin”, it would have been an improvement but still flawed by the possibility that the responding sin in others must be discovered to constitute scandal.
Where is the truth?! I went looking. Of popular catechisms over an inch thick within reach, I found nothing indexed on scandal by John Hardon, or Wuerl & Lawler. Of encyclopedias at our library: The 2003 Catholic one gives lots but no particular help. Neither does Stravinskas in his. Broderick’s (1975) comes close by addressing “scandal taken” but not “given”. I wouldn’t dare turn to McBrien’s for anything except as kindling fuel.
Ultimately I found everything I needed to defend the truth, the Church and myself in books 55 years old or more which I will here cite and abstract, especially for your readers, as I did for Sue. For her I went three pages and that was only Part I. I intend to teach her a lesson or two.
The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914, on the Web: “For scandal to exist it is... essential and sufficient, with regard to the nature of the act and the circumstances under which it takes place, that it be of a nature to induce sin in another; consequently it is NOT necessary that the neighbour should actually fall into sin...”[emphasis added]
O’Connell, Rev. John., Ed.; The Holy Bible, Holy Trinity Edition, The Catholic Press, Inc., 1951; A Catholic Dictionary appendix, p.211; my late mother’s bible: “SCANDAL - Harmful effects that a word or action MAY have on others in tempting or inciting them to sin. Even though the other does not actually sin, the offender is held accountable for the scandal given...” [emphasis added] Note: more below on “scandal given”.
Donovan, Rev. C.F.; Our Faith and the Facts; Chicago, 1927, p.680; this better defines the gravity of scandal: “SCANDAL - To lead another to commit sin; a sin against the fifth commandment, being equivalent to spiritual murder.”
Elwell, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Clarence, et al.; Toward The Eternal Commencement, a text book series of 4 volumes, 2nd edition, 1957, (available in reprint). - The first edition of 1946 was my early and best instruction before reading any of the above. Vol. 3, p.547: “To give scandal means to do something that will TEND to lead others to sin. This may be done by commission or omission... It is not necessary that others be led into sin but only that they MAY be influenced toward sin by our actions.”[emphasis added] - This does not say that they MUST be influenced.
The Scriptural foundation for scandal “given” and “taken” is from Christ’s paying of a tax. Though He had perfect exemption, He paid it only to avoid giving scandal. (Matt.17 :24-27)
I’ll hazard a wild guess as to how the writers of the CCC could do this: It trusted some prior knowledge of scandal. It was written by a scholar for scholars on the committee seeking favor for final insertion of an article. As a reference for scholars, that’s fine. For the ordinary uninformed Catholic seeking to learn, it isn’t. Too much has been left to prior scholarship of the reader, failing that, imagination of which some ,bent on their own agenda, have plenty (to wit: Sue).
Recent opinion has it that the private sense of sin is lost; I would venture the corporate one worse. I’ll agree with Cole Porter on this one: “In olden days a glimpse of stocking, was looked on as something shocking; now Heaven knows, anything goes.” And that was only 1934. Heaven knows it’s worse, much worse; cataclysmically, diabolically worse.
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From: Vic
Phil:
I came to the same conclusion, although you did a whole lot more research than I did.
As I understand it, and have always understood it, scandal is any external action or verbalization that is, in and of itself, evil. It must be external, because it must have some effect on someone else. It may either induce someone else to sin, or provide the occasion for someone else to sin, or present a positive example of the sin to someone else. The more public the scandalous action or verbalization, the more scandalous it is, as the number of people exposed to it increases.
Here is how I used it in the ethos page:
"We have before us the disgraceful situations in which Catholic priests and bishops participate in and help someone to not only commit open sacrilege, but to do it in a publicly scandalous way. Such as giving Holy Communion to the world's most recognized public champions and political sponsors of abortion, and to open, professed, public sodomites, and to non-Catholics like the Clintons, who don't even believe in the Catholic Eucharist, or anything else the Church teaches, and so forth. Kerry and Kennedy and the Clintons of the world are so publicly at odds with Catholic Church teaching that they may quite accurately be called anti-Catholics, and yet they brazenly come forward for Catholic Communion, and are helped to commit open, scandalous sacrilege by Catholic clerics. What kind of a supposedly Catholic religious ethos do these priests and bishops thereby project to the larger world, and encourage their lay followers to adopt for themselves?"
Witnesses to this sort of sin are said to be scandalized, even though they may not be moved to sin themselves. They are presented with open sin in a manner in which the sin is public, and seen to be acceptable by some present, most especially, the actual public sinner(s).
This presents the one scandalized with a dilemma: faith calls him to immediately renounce the sin as sin, yet, the public venue calls him to hold his tongue. By holding his tongue, he participates in the public sin. He is said to be scandalized. This is a terrible position to put someone in, particularly in a venue in which the sin is not recognized as sin, or, the sin has majority favor. But truth is not determined by any particular popularity poll.
What comes most immediately to mind is Matt 18:7 -
Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes!
Does this help?
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Satan’s New World Order Blueprint and Key Strategy. Christian Capitulation To the Serpent's Consensus Process
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Demonic Darkness: America's Invisible Wave of Evil. Staring into the abyss
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Modernist Christians in a Man-Centered Universe. Scientific Neutrality and Biblical Deconstruction
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Isaiah 57 revisited: America's progressive pagan elites. Staring into the Abyss
Evolutionary Theism Implies That Christ is Wrong About Creation. "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" John 5:46-47
Utopianism. Progressive Utopian Cultural Marxism Poisoning Minds, Churches, Schools, Politics
Acts 17:18-19-modern pagan and pantheist antithesis of the Word of God Ecclesiates 1:9 "What has been is what will be.."
Trotsky's Permanent Revolution From Hell In America. The Soviet System in America
Why Transgenderism Is Being Forced Upon America and Our Children. The Divine Androgyne
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What is Evil? Man-made alternative realities
Cliff Kincaid
Trump is Destroying Reagan's Legacy By Cliff Kincaid
Trump is a Marked Man By Cliff Kincaid
Terrorist Attack in Baltimore By Cliff Kincaid
Moscow Terror Attack is Another KGB Operation to Fool the West
Obama’s New Nazi-Communist Alliance
On the "Days Of Rage" Planned For The 2024 Marxocrat Party Convention Some of you just couldn't believe that the formerly Democrat
(Confederate) Party had already gone totally Communist before the 1968
Party Convention
Making Russia Great Again By Cliff Cinkaid
De-Nazification and De-Communization in Russia The The mutual non-aggression Hitler-Stalin Pact, which started World War II, has been carefully “forgotten”
Climate Emergency To Produce a New World Order By Cliff Kincaid
The Next Phase of Obama’s “Permanent Revolution” By Cliff Kincaid
Evil in the White House In This War, The Enemy Is In The Ranks, Standing Right Next To You
Satanism, Communism: What's The Difference? Look To The Roots Of Communism
Fox Is the Leading "Trans" Channel There are some rather peculiar goings-on at the Fox News Channel.
Trump and His Communist Enemies The Demonized Joe McCarthy Turned Out To Be Accurate In Everything He Claimed: Fox News Is Wrong About Him And About Much More
The Five Stooges on Capitol Hill They Think We Need Even More Doped No-Hopers In The American Intelligence Community
The Biden Doctrine of Demoralization and Defeat By Cliff Kincaid
A Republican Church Committee? Do Pro-American Republicans Even Know Who Frank Church Really Was?
A Top to Bottom Housecleaning of America When we clean our house, my wife has a slogan, “Top to bottom,” meaning you have to target the whole house. The same advice applies to nations.
China's Mass Murder Experiment Phase Two
Bury The Dead And Move On Fuggedaboutit!
9/11 Truth This is the real 9/11 Truth: Our “intelligence” agencies are infiltrated.
Moving Toward Gorbachev’s “World of Communism” It's called the Monster Plot.
The Errors of Russia, the Dupes of Putin, and Another Holocaust Can The Increasingly Faithless Free World Be Saved From Russia?
World War Quietly Conquering A Distracted and Blithely Unaware World. Could it actually be Satan's world war on despised humanity?
Stand With Ukraine Against Russia and China By Cliff Kincaid
Tucker Carlson Carlson Gets His Comeuppance. Tucker's View: It is not moral for us to intervene in support of any nation's (Ukraine's) democratic self-determination and against Soviet military expansion.
The Need for Secure Borders. Have we so easily forgotten what borders are for? Have we forgotten that evil exists in the world? Have we forgotten how to keep apart from this evil?
Can Ukraine Survive Putin and Biden? Can America? Can the Free World? Can Faith in God?
The Soviet Union: Back From The Dead The Return of the Evil Empire
Could an American Surrender be in the offing with Biden at the wheel? Is this not the perfect time for Communism to strike, with Commies now governing America, China and Russia? What would Biden do?
Abortion and Communism. If you ever wondered where all the popular abortion-contraception-sexuality-perversion nuttiness came from, look to Marx's Communist Manifesto.
The Secret Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. A life almost totally at odds with his reputation as a minister of the Gospel.
"We belong to the Church militant; and She is militant because on earth the powers of darkness are ever restless to encompass Her destruction. Not only in the far-off centuries of the early Church, but down through the ages and in this our day, the enemies of God and Christian civilization make bold to attack the Creator's supreme dominion and sacrosanct human rights." --Pope Pius XII
"It is not lawful to take the things of others to give to the poor. It is a sin worthy of punishment, not an act deserving a reward, to give away what belongs to others." --St. Francis of Assisi
Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.—Winston Churchill
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.—Ayn Rand
Atheist Genesis:
In the beginning there was nothing, and nothing happened to nothing.And then nothing accidentally exploded and created everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally encountered other bits of everything and formed some new kinds of everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into self-replicating bits of everything.
And then some self-replicating bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into dinosaurs.
See?
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