MY GUARDIAN ANGEL

In highlighting the text, as seen in the video, I pinpoint the principle teaching that I believe Bishops adopt from St. Alphonsus Liguori to make decisions to council pedophile priests to remain in invincible ignorance that their acts against their victims are not only evil but produce grave evil consequences.

Internal vs External Forum - Making distinctions between the two help us understand that not living up to the sacramental signs of matrimony that are meant to reflect the love of Christ for his Church, does not necessarily mean that a rupture with friendship with God (mortal sin) has occurred.

Also, if I may add, matrimony between one man and one women as a visible sign of our faith in the Trinity as another example of the external forum giving witness to our faith in the Triune God, if unable to be witnessed may not necessarily mean the mentioned couple is in a state of mortal sin.

This distinction between the Internal & External forum is necessary to understand the distribution of priest from one parish to another after they are accused of pedophilia, regardless of if they are guilty or not.

Adopting St. Alphonses Legorio’s teaching on invincible ignorance, as finding it a valid pastoral approach to omit teaching a penitent in friendship with God the awareness of an act that they are currently doing as being sinful, due to the assumption that if it is believed that the penitent would become aware that his act is a sin would still do the act and therefore formally mortally sin (because he isn’t ready to follow that rule as of yet due to immaturity in faith as of yet), could be the reason why pedophilia continues to remain systematic within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. It could be that Bishops don’t find these priest culpable of their pedophilia acts due to the invincible ignorance that it is a sin

Documentary. Youtube it.

Understanding what 'invincible ignorance' is and how it relates to the Catholic Church's pastoral approach to pedophilia, will help the laity finally understand what goes on in the minds of these Bishops that cover-up the objectively grave sins of their priests when moving them to new parishes where the public does not know of their pedophilia actions. It is precisely because of the 'invincible ignorance' of the pedophile if in not knowing that he commits objectively grave sin when he has sex with your child, produces the circumstance for a Bishop to maintain that since the pedophile's subjective culpability is diminished if not entirely removed by 'invincible ignorance, it can be concluded that the subjective culpability of the Bishop that coverups up the objectively grave sin of the pedophile, is diminished if not entirely removed.

This arrises from a pastoral approach that ignores to inform those entrusted to their care, certain nuances or difference between subjective culpability of a sin and the objective culpability of a sin, so that it arrises that one can teach those entrusted to their care, albeit in an equivocal/ambiguous way, that a sin is not a sin, and what's not a sin is a sin.

So here we have my interpretation of what Pope Francis means to say when he says, that it is because of lack of catechesis that this coverup of pedophilia continues. But what is not considered is that although the Bishops may not be culpable for the pedophile priests' evil actions, the Bishops are still responsible according to the Principle of Double-Effect, that is, by their power and authority to take action that will reduce the bad consequences. The Bishops have a duty to try to mitigate the bad consequences as much as they can so that it can be said that the bad consequence of their pastoral approach were unintentional, that is, so that it cannot be said that the bad consequences caused the good consequences. In other words, the Bishop needs to take into account the objective evil of pedophile victims who commit suicide, the objective evils of allowing the pedophile to remain in situations that are of occasions to sin, the possibility that victims by being taught by the actions of pedophiles that evil is good and good is evil may indeed become murderers. So St.Alphonsus' pastoral approach must take into account the salvation of the souls of the pedophiles' victims as well, who by their actions implicitly teach the victims to have an inverted idea of morality.

Understanding why Bishops make decisions to move pedophiles to another parish where the public does not know of the pastors' past pedophilia activity.

Distinguishing the difference between outward visible signs of God's love for his people compared with invisible ignorant acts of grave matter against God's laws that reduce culpability entirely from subjective sin

The categories of law and their order in which it must be observed is important to understand if we are to mitigate the evil of pedophilia

correcting myself

Taken from Amoris Laetitia and the 1917 Code of Canon Law

I thought it beneficial to show you the proper definition of what the church defines scandal to be so that we don't get it confused. This definition reiterates the point I was trying to make in the first couple of episodes when I regarded the excuse of "cover-up of pedophilia's existence to avoid scandal" to be false.