Achille Vander Heeren was a Belgian Catholic biblical scholar. He was Professor of Moral Theology and Librarian at the Great Seminary, Bruges. He wrote several articles for the Catholic Encyclopedia, including those on Scandal (theology)

Scandal (theology)

In an idiomatic usage in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, a stumbling block is a behavior or attitude that leads another to sin.-Etymology:...

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

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He also wrote a series of pamphlets circulated among Dutch-speaking Catholics in the 1930s: De Joden: hun bekering (1935), Gelooven (1936), Sint Jans Evangelie (1937).