Everyone should learn what cognitive dissonance is and learn to avoid a trap to commit sin

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I won’t define it here. There are plenty of good websites that explain it.

Example: your brother breaks a window with his baseball (which is wrong) but you don’t tell anybody he did it, because you don’t want to get him in trouble.

Cognitive dissonance is that mental process that tells you to avoid the truth (he broke the window with a baseball) because of your loyalty to or fear of your brother.

CD is one of the first things I learned in psychology 101 50 years ago. It presents a moral dilemma.

In terms of current events, one might have such high regard for bishops and priests so as to make you believe that they can do no wrong (despite the fact that so many have done wrong). A simplified version of this self-deception would be the thought that “that couldn’t happen here.” Here, it involves denial of a fact to protect one’s cherished belief.
 
Hmm, sorry to say but my CD is trying to remain Catholic while being thoroughly discussed with the leadership and finding a lot of the teachings absurd. Yet I remain.
 
I don’t have any cognitive dissonance because the Church ‘s teachings on sexual morality are sound.
The suffering occurred because of priests and bishops who did not uphold the teachings, and hence, caused pain to the innocent.
If they had upheld Catholic morality, then no problem.
So in the end, this scandal only proved the soundness of Catholic moral teaching.
 
What about someone who was molested by a clergy and sued the diocese but remains a practicing catholic in that diocese?
 
I don’t see any problem whatsoever.
Suing a diocese is not the same as forsaking Jesus
 
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