POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

To The Friends of James Cruckson and Josie Warner

In reading the continuing comments posted to the posts regarding the tragedy in Fon du Lac, wherein an officer was killed, another wounded, and a man apparently suicided, it strikes me that the crux of the issues being debated centers around moral guilt of this party and another. Where an entire community of people... in particular the loved ones of both the murdered and the murderer... have suffered having their worlds torn apart... especially to the children of the deceased... it is important to keep in context that there is Mercy. And there is Justice. And none escapes this world without embracing the one or the other.

There is no one person responsible for this most terrible event. There is no one person responsible for the aftermath and suffering.

No doubt, James Cruckson appears to be guilty of killing an officer in the line of duty. He only compounded his crime by taking his own life.

But there is another who also appears to have blood on their hands.

For those of the Christian Faiths, I beseech thee to consider the following. On this Palm Sunday, we are faced with the knowledge that we, each on of us, accuses Him, denies Him, convicts Him, and crucifies Him. It is our collective guilt.

Scandal is real, my brothers and sisters in Christ.

Among us are Judases. Within each of us lives Judas. God have mercy on each of us.

Respect for the Dignity of Persons

Respect for the souls of others: 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."

Scandal is grave when given by those who by nature or office are obliged to teach and educate others. Jesus reproaches the scribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to wolves in sheep's clothing.

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."

This is also true of business leaders who make rules encouraging fraud, teachers who provoke their children to anger, or manipulators of public opinion who turn it away from moral 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!"

Enoch_Root

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