Comments on: “for edification and not for your destruction” http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/02/29/for-edification-and-not-for-your-destruction/ Now This Is The Real World! Where Theology and Real Life Meet. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Todd http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/02/29/for-edification-and-not-for-your-destruction/#comment-642524 Todd Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:34:13 +0000 http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/02/29/for-edification-and-not-for-your-destruction/#comment-642524 There's a simple approach for confessors. They should insist a penitent turn himself or herself in to the authorities. A failure to do that could be construed as a lack of sincerity. (Rite of Penance 18) The paragraph continues: "A penitent who has been the cause of harm or scandal to others is to be led by the priest to resolve to make due restitution." If bishops don't insist on discipline within the sacrament of penance for the purpose of alleviating scandal and harm, they have no one but themselves to blame for the attacks on the sacrament. There’s a simple approach for confessors. They should insist a penitent turn himself or herself in to the authorities. A failure to do that could be construed as a lack of sincerity. (Rite of Penance 18)

The paragraph continues:

“A penitent who has been the cause of harm or scandal to others is to be led by the priest to resolve to make due restitution.”

If bishops don’t insist on discipline within the sacrament of penance for the purpose of alleviating scandal and harm, they have no one but themselves to blame for the attacks on the sacrament.

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