Day 298: Respect for Others (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
We have seen how harming ourselves or others physically is a violation of the fifth commandment, but how can causing harm to another’s virtue or integrity violate this commandment? Fr. Mike unpacks what scandal is and exactly how it is a violation of the fifth commandment. He emphasizes the gravity of scandal when it comes from those who, by nature, teach, and how vital it is for all of us, but especially teachers, to avoid contributing to scandal. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2284-2287.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a year podcast, |
| 0:09.3 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down |
| 0:13.2 | to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in New Year is brought to you by ascension. |
| 0:16.9 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is a 298. We're reading paragraphs 2,284 to 2,287. As always, I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You could also download your own catechism in a year reading |
| 0:41.0 | plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your |
| 0:45.5 | podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications, but you knew that already. Today is day 298. |
| 0:51.0 | We're looking at this respect for the dignity of persons. Now, again, always keeping this |
| 0:56.0 | in mind is that these last seven commandments, the first three, right, love of God, the last seven, |
| 1:02.3 | love of neighbor, they are all based on the dignity of the human person. So one of those things, |
| 1:09.1 | well, many of the things we've been talking about |
| 1:10.9 | has been, if I take the life, like the actual physical life of another innocent human being, |
| 1:17.7 | that's strictly prohibited. What about damaging someone's soul? What about damaging, it says here, |
| 1:24.3 | respect for the souls of others. That's the subtitle of the subtitle, |
| 1:27.9 | Respect for the Dignity of Persons right above paragraph 2-284. Respect for the souls of others. |
| 1:32.4 | There's a way in which we can do even, I don't want to say, graver damage, but yeah, I'm going to |
| 1:38.7 | say it. Even graver damage. It's one thing to take the physical life, to end the physical life of someone. |
| 1:46.9 | It is another thing to lead them into sin and to by our example, by our counsel, to lead someone |
| 1:54.3 | away from the Lord that their soul would be lost to God forever. And that's the sin of scandal. |
| 2:00.4 | So today we're going to look at the |
| 2:01.5 | sin of scandal. And the fact that we're called to respect the souls of others, not just their |
| 2:05.6 | physical life, but also their spiritual life. As we look into this, some of the things that can |
| 2:10.6 | happen is just like for the last number of days. It seems like a broken record today, or broken record |
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