Am I still responsible for sins of scandal even if I confessed them

[Zynxensar]

If I have confessed past sins of scandal, am I still responsible if my neighbour is still influenced by them today? E.g I stole and taught my younger brother to steal last time and till this day, he still thinks stealing is right because of me.

 

[veritatisstella]

You will always be responsible if it was you who influenced another person. Because you are responsible for it, you ought to do what you can to undo your original bad influence. What measures are appropriate here will differ in individual circumstances.

But because you confessed it, you have been forgiven and remain forgiven. The bad effects that follow from it now add no extra guilt to your original sin of scandal.

 

[Arkansan]

In general there is a duty to repair scandal. Under ordinary circumstances, good behavior is sufficient to repair scandal.

Keep in mind what has been explained to you before about what scandal actually requires.

 

[edward_george1]

Posting threads about your sins is not going to help you. We’ve been through this.

You did so well at staying away from the forums. I noticed you posted some non-scrupulous threads in the last few days, so I figured it was a matter of time before this came up again. Please, for your own sake, keep up the progress you’ve made and stay off the forums. Get help in person.

-Fr ACEGC

 

[Augustinian]

As Mark Anthony observed back in antiquity:“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”

 

[Zynxensar]

You’re right. I’d better not fall back into these bad habits. Thanks Fr Edward

 

[Giggly_Giraffe]

“Temporal punishment

That temporal punishment is due to sin, even after the sin itself has been pardoned by God, is clearly the teaching of Scripture. God indeed brought man out of his first disobedience and gave him power to govern all things (Wisdom 10:2), but still condemned him “to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow” until he returned unto dust. God forgave the incredulity of Moses and Aaron, but in punishment kept them from the “land of promise” (Numbers 20:12). The Lord took away the sin of David, but the life of the child was forfeited because David had made God’s enemies blaspheme His Holy Name (2 Samuel 12:13-14). In the New Testament as well as in the Old, almsgiving and fasting, and in general penitential acts are the real fruits of repentance (Matthew 3:8; Luke 17:3; 3:3). The whole penitential system of the Church testifies that the voluntary assumption of penitential works has always been part of true repentance and the Council of Trent (Sess. XIV, can. xi) reminds the faithful that God does not always remit the whole punishment due to sin together with the guilt. God requires satisfaction, and will punish sin, and this doctrine involves as its necessary consequence a belief that the sinner failing to do penance in this life may be punished in another world, and so not be cast off eternally from God.” http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12575a.htm