We at ABE Ministry have long been convinced that the treatment of scandal in the universal catechism is one proximate cause of the collapse of the Roman Catholic Church.
So, let's jump right in with a critique * of the Catechism Raider Fan wrote a long time ago.
The Catholic Catechism gives scandal and
* Raider Fan's Bishop, Bishop Gerald Barbarito (Palm Beach Diocese Florida) is in agreement with the catechism according to his secretary and Raider Fan has sent both an electronic and hard copy of his critique to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith but never expected any response and his expectations were met.
The Catechism requires a rewrite. Read what it teaches about Scandal:
2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. The person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor's tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense.
2285 Scandal takes on a particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."[85] Scandal is grave when given by those who by nature or office are obliged to teach and educate others. Jesus reproaches thescribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to wolves in sheep's clothing.[86]
2286 Scandal can be provoked by laws or institutions, by fashion or opinion. Therefore, they are guilty of scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of morals and the corruption of religious practice, or to "social conditions that, intentionally or not, make Christian conduct and obedience to the Commandments difficult and practically impossible."[87] This is also true of business leaders who make rules encouraging fraud, teachers who provoke their children to anger,[88] or manipulators of public opinion who turn it away frommoral values.
2287 Anyone who uses the power at his disposal in such a way that it leads others to do wrong becomes guilty of scandal and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly encouraged. "Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!"[89]
And then read what it teaches about Jesus and Scandal:
587 If the Law and the Jerusalem Temple could be occasions of opposition to Jesus by Israel's religious authorities, his role in the redemption of sins, the divine work par excellence, was the true stumbling-block for them.363
588 Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves.364 Against those among them "who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others", Jesus affirmed: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."365 He went further by proclaiming before the Pharisees that, since sin is universal, those who pretend not to need salvation are blind to themselves.366
589 Jesus gave scandal above all when he identified his merciful conduct toward sinners with God's own attitude toward them.367 He went so far as to hint that by sharing the table of sinners he was admitting them to the messianic banquet.368 But it was most especially by forgiving sins that Jesus placed the religious authorities ofIsrael on the horns of a dilemma. Were they not entitled to demand in consternation, "Who can forgive sins but God alone?"369 By forgiving sins Jesus either is blaspheming as a man who made himself God's equal, or is speaking the truth and his person really does make present and reveal God's name.370
Objectively, the Catechism is teaching that it is always wrong to give scandal while at the same time teaching that Jesus gave scandal; that is, objectively, the Catholic Catechism teaches that Jesus was wrong in His actions.
Of course the Catholic Church does not believe that Jesus sinned (does it?) but, at least to Raider Fan, it has gravely erred and given grave scandal by emphasising that Jesus GAVE scandal (twice) rather than that it was the case that Jews took scandal. Objectively, the CCC teaches that Jesus sinned, unless the author/editor of the Catechism was Humpty Dumpty who has his own meanings for the words he used.
2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. The person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor's tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense.
2285 Scandal takes on a particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."[85] Scandal is grave when given by those who by nature or office are obliged to teach and educate others. Jesus reproaches thescribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to wolves in sheep's clothing.[86]
2286 Scandal can be provoked by laws or institutions, by fashion or opinion. Therefore, they are guilty of scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of morals and the corruption of religious practice, or to "social conditions that, intentionally or not, make Christian conduct and obedience to the Commandments difficult and practically impossible."[87] This is also true of business leaders who make rules encouraging fraud, teachers who provoke their children to anger,[88] or manipulators of public opinion who turn it away frommoral values.
2287 Anyone who uses the power at his disposal in such a way that it leads others to do wrong becomes guilty of scandal and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly encouraged. "Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!"[89]
And then read what it teaches about Jesus and Scandal:
587 If the Law and the Jerusalem Temple could be occasions of opposition to Jesus by Israel's religious authorities, his role in the redemption of sins, the divine work par excellence, was the true stumbling-block for them.363
588 Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves.364 Against those among them "who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others", Jesus affirmed: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."365 He went further by proclaiming before the Pharisees that, since sin is universal, those who pretend not to need salvation are blind to themselves.366
589 Jesus gave scandal above all when he identified his merciful conduct toward sinners with God's own attitude toward them.367 He went so far as to hint that by sharing the table of sinners he was admitting them to the messianic banquet.368 But it was most especially by forgiving sins that Jesus placed the religious authorities ofIsrael on the horns of a dilemma. Were they not entitled to demand in consternation, "Who can forgive sins but God alone?"369 By forgiving sins Jesus either is blaspheming as a man who made himself God's equal, or is speaking the truth and his person really does make present and reveal God's name.370
Objectively, the Catechism is teaching that it is always wrong to give scandal while at the same time teaching that Jesus gave scandal; that is, objectively, the Catholic Catechism teaches that Jesus was wrong in His actions.
Of course the Catholic Church does not believe that Jesus sinned (does it?) but, at least to Raider Fan, it has gravely erred and given grave scandal by emphasising that Jesus GAVE scandal (twice) rather than that it was the case that Jews took scandal. Objectively, the CCC teaches that Jesus sinned, unless the author/editor of the Catechism was Humpty Dumpty who has his own meanings for the words he used.
How was it possible that this escaped the notice of the editors? It hit Raider Fan like a punch in the stomach the first time he read it and he, literally, threw the Catechism across the room onto the floor and shrouded it in vulgar invective.
Either the entries on scandal must be expanded to include an explication of the specific types of scandal – direct and indirect…
Or – far better
Rewrite the entries about Jesus “giving scandal”: to make it crystal clear it was the Jews who took scandal.
Jesus was not about giving scandal.
Mat 17:26 But that we may not scandalize them…
Matt 15:12 Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?
My Rheims Testament notes: It must be observed here, that Christ was not the direct cause of scandal to the Jews, for such scandal would not be allowable; he only caused it indirectly, because it was his doctrine, at which, through their own perversity, they took scandal.
The Catechism entries on this subject must be rewritten. I have thought this way since 1997 when I first read these entries.
When it comes to Jesus and Scandal, The Catholic Catechism with its New Theology (modernism) scandalises me.
Either the entries on scandal must be expanded to include an explication of the specific types of scandal – direct and indirect…
Or – far better
Rewrite the entries about Jesus “giving scandal”: to make it crystal clear it was the Jews who took scandal.
Jesus was not about giving scandal.
Mat 17:26 But that we may not scandalize them…
Matt 15:12 Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?
My Rheims Testament notes: It must be observed here, that Christ was not the direct cause of scandal to the Jews, for such scandal would not be allowable; he only caused it indirectly, because it was his doctrine, at which, through their own perversity, they took scandal.
The Catechism entries on this subject must be rewritten. I have thought this way since 1997 when I first read these entries.
When it comes to Jesus and Scandal, The Catholic Catechism with its New Theology (modernism) scandalises me.
In the entire history of Holy Mother Church, The ONLY PERSON the Catholic teaches who gave scandal is the Divine Person; Jesus, Our Lord and Saviour. He is the sole person singled-out for such identification.
Now, ask your own self, would you speak publicly about your wife in that manner even if she had done something wrong; would you publicly identify her as one who gave scandal?
Of course you wouldn't - not if you loved her.
And, if you were haughty and foolish enough to do such a thing, how do you imagine she would react?
Keep that in mind....
And, if you were haughty and foolish enough to do such a thing, how do you imagine she would react?
Keep that in mind....
Since the revolution within the form of Catholicism at Vatican Two, it is crystal clear that as an institution, Holy Mother Church has come to love man more than Jesus Christ and that can be seen in her actions and doctrines.
Let's begin with actions and the holiest and most important action ever taking place on earth at any time, The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass; The Real Mass, well, it used to be The Real Mass until the modernist revolutionaries reformed it by killing it and replacing it with The Lil' Licit Liturgy.
Let's begin with actions and the holiest and most important action ever taking place on earth at any time, The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass; The Real Mass, well, it used to be The Real Mass until the modernist revolutionaries reformed it by killing it and replacing it with The Lil' Licit Liturgy.
The Lil' Licit Liturgy is an action that has reduced to almost invisibility the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the presence of Jesus as both Priest and Victim while at the same time it has magnified the presence of the laity who roam about the sanctuary, man and woman alike, as Jesus (Where is the Tabernacle in your Parish?) in the person of the Priest, sits on a chair watching the laity perform actions once exclusively his.
That is, we decided that He had to decrease while we had to increase.
That is, we decided that He had to decrease while we had to increase.
That is a simple observable reality and that can not be argued or gainsaid.
And, finally, the worst insult imaginable by the Catholic Church - publicly teaching that he is a sinner.
Yes, Virginia, if words mean anything that is exactly what Holy Mother Church has done. Go on, go back and read the entires produced above.
Now, even though me and thee are not Jesus, does it not seem spiritually logical that He would withdraw His Grace from His Church - obviously not completely as then it would fail and disappear - as just punishment for such execrable entires?
It makes spiritual sense to we at ABE Ministry.
As just punishment for the crimes of the destruction The Roman Rite (Real Mass) Jesus has withdrawn much of His Grace from His Catholic Church and it will begin to flow as abundantly as it did before only when the Lil' Licit Liturgy is destroyed and the Real Mass is restored.
AND, the Catechism must be corrected or the Catholic collapse will not only continue but will increase in intensity and speed because within the Hierarchy there is not one man possessing Tradition with enough power force that it could be applied against our Inertia Into Indifferentism.