The redemption of a murderer. A story

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I found this sentence extraordinary: “Jacque Fesch abandoned his wife and daughter, fathered an illegitimate child, committed armed robbery, and killed a policeman”. ‘Fathered an illegitimate (sic) child’ is not in the same category of any of the other things listed. I’ve commented before that one of the things unbelievers such as me find most difficult to understand is the ability of Catholics to reduce very, very, different things to a common denominator of ‘sin’. I am sure this has contributed to the initial difficulties the Church has had in understanding the qualitative difference between, say, child abuse and consensual adult sex. . . .
 
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the ability of Catholics to reduce very, very, different things to a common denominator of ‘sin’.
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They are all mortal sins, so grouped together. Catholics did not dream this up. This was taught by Jesus and the Apostles. That is good enough for us. Atheists of course have a different world view.
 
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I am sure this has contributed to the initial difficulties the Church has had in understanding the qualitative difference between, say, child abuse and consensual adult sex.
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Most Catholics do understand, you are talking about a fringe.
 
Sin is all encompassing.

In Christian views it is an evil human act, which violates the rational nature of man as well as God’s nature and his eternal law. According to the classical definition of St. Augustine of Hippo sin is “a word, deed, or desire in opposition to the eternal law of God.”
It is being out of the perfect will of God.
Knowing God’s will is difficult.
The RC church measures sin: Venial or Mortal. I heard someone say, we leave God’s protection in sin.
Can someone be forgiven of multiple serious sins, like Jeffrey Dalmer. Yes, they can.
There is the parable of the tenant farmer. He hires work hands at early morning & tells them, their pay. By 12 noon, he could see he had to hire more, at the same price. He hired more at the end of the day, for the same salary. HUH!!
That’s what the early laborers asked. The land owner said it wasn’t their business to c/o pay or work load. It was his business. Phooey! That’s how that story goes. Dalmer found Jesus in jail. I felt good w that news. He got murdered in jail. I felt sad w that news & relieved he found God. BUT, then I thought, what if he’d murdered my brother???
Recall the Baptist Church inCharleston, that was shot up. 6 dead. THE NEXT DAY THEY CAME OUT & FORGAVE HIM. I could do it, but I might need a week. So, that seriel pediophile could get forgiven. I don’t want him forgiven. He’d have to be truly sorry. But, he could get to heaven. IDK how God works all that out.
Lord, help us to understand & be grateful for all the souls saved. Being Christ & thinking like Him is hard.
Yes. A murderer in solitary confinement can find God.
 
FiveLinden said:
I am sure this has contributed to the initial difficulties the Church has had in understanding the qualitative difference between, say, child abuse and consensual adult sex.
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“The Church” as in most people in the Church do not have any problem understanding this difference, especially nowadays when society in general has less problem understanding the difference.

I find it sad and disrespectul that you use a story of a man’s redemption to take such a potshot at “the Church”.
 
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Child abuse is still listed, along with consensual adult sex, under sins against the 6th and 9th commandments as it rape.
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That’s a misunderstanding on your part, they are grouped together because they are all share a common trait, it doesn’t mean they share the same gravity.
 
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That’s a distinction that you want to make on your own, but what the Catholic Church does is reasonable and easily understood.
 
Getting back to the OP’s original topic of Servant of God Jacques Fesch, I read some more articles on him.
His son, whom he had with a mistress, was apparently given up but managed as an older adult to trace himself back to his father, took his father’s name and all of his own kids also took the name. His son is also working to obtain a “judicial rehabilitation” for his father, posthumously. Apparently this is some legal statement that a prisoner guilty of a crime was rehabilitated.
These articles translated to English on my laptop with Google Tranlate but not with my Android because I didn’t have some app.


 
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