Thursday, July 20, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 319.
(Youcat answer) No, we are not responsible for other people’s sins, unless we
are guilty of misleading or seducing another person to sin or of cooperating in
it or of encouraging someone else to sin or of neglecting to offer a timely
warning or our help.
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 1868) Sin is a personal act. Moreover,
we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: - by participating
directly and voluntarily in them; - by ordering, advising, praising, or
approving them; - by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an
obligation to do so; - by protecting evil-doers.
Reflecting
and meditating
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 1736) Every act directly willed is
imputable to its author: Thus the Lord asked Eve after the sin in the garden:
"What is this that you have done?" (Gen 3:13). He asked Cain the same
question (Cf. Gen 4:10). The prophet Nathan questioned David in the same way
after he committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and had him murdered (Cf. 2
Sam 12:7-15). An action can be indirectly voluntary when it results from
negligence regarding something one should have known or done: for example, an
accident arising from ignorance of traffic laws.
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