RE: Ask a Traditional Catholic
June 28, 2015 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2015 at 7:52 pm by PiousPaladin.)
(June 28, 2015 at 7:49 pm)IATIA Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 12:54 pm)PiousPaladin Wrote: That cannot be tolerated, it must be stopped. In ages past we could simply shun you from polite society if you scandalized the faithful, now in this dark age we must return to the methods of the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church.
I have read on the Inquisition and the Crusades, that is what cannot be tolerated. If I want to go to hell, that is my prerogative to choose through my free will and it is no business of yours. I do not intend to take you with me, only my friends.
Were it that simple. When you sin you may lead other observers to sin with you. That simply cannot be risked, that is why scandal is forbidden. Why do you think the church has gone to such great pains to prevent co habitation and keep the gossip of acts of sexual immorality in the confessional where they should have remained? Such revelations weaken the faith of those who hear them, and such an injury upon souls must be punished.
