There's no rash judgement here. No one has said that Fr. Poisson is in fact a pedophile. But the facts make him suspect. There's a clear distiction there even recognized in Canon Law. Certain external actions can render someone suspect of heresy for instance. Was the Church making a rash judgment in labeling Roncalli suspect of Modernism? Church did not say he was a Modernist, just that he was suspect of it. Even if it had turned out that he really wasn't, the judgment that he said and did things that made him suspect was neither rash nor wrong. If I see someone talking and acting like a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ, then that makes him objectively suspect and the suspicion is not rash ... even if it turned out to be wrong. Would I be wrong to turn him down if he offered to take my young son camping? In fact, I would commit a grave sin by letting him do so.
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