QUOTATION: The Truth Must Out

It is better that scandals arise than truth be suppressed.

--Pope St. Gregory the Great

QUOTATION: Manifest Grave Sin = No Communion

The judgment of one's state of grace obviously belongs only to the person involved, since it is a question of examining one's conscience. However, in cases of outward conduct which is seriously, clearly and steadfastly contrary to the moral norm, the Church, in her pastoral concern for the good order of the community and out of respect for the sacrament, cannot fail to feel directly involved. The Code of Canon Law refers to this situation of a manifest lack of proper moral disposition when it states that those who “obstinately persist in manifest grave sin” are not to be admitted to Eucharistic communion.

--Pope St. John Paul II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 18

QUOTATION: Divinity

Divinity and its ways will always be a scandal to men.

-- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: Scandal

Woe to those who give scandal! The guardian angels of their innocent victims will cry out for vengeance to God.

--St. John Bosco