We've been told too many times by catholics that Scripture and Tradition hold equal value in the rcc.
It's why when Christianity examines these topics and compares them to the Bible they are found wanting and in many cases false.
In the catholic.com website you provided you see the attempt at catholics trying to move away from this "belief" as fast as they can. Yet...many will continue to believe and promote it.
So I ask you....will you disavow the apparitions and the false messages they contain? If not, you're just a culpable as the ones who promote this stuff.
Now to address the rest of your post.
No...there's nothing to thank. The whole concept of wearing a piece of cloth to keep you out of the eternal fire is nonsense.
From the brochure...http://www.fatima.org/apostolate/pdf/brown_scapular.pdf
“ Whosoever dies clothed in this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.” the promise of the apparition.
Such is the extraordinary promise Our Lady makes to those who wear Her Brown Scapular. And this wonderful promise makes the Scapular the most powerful sacramental Heaven’s mercy has given us.
The Scapular also represents Our Lady’s protection and Her care for us. She promised to Saint Simon Stock: “It shall be a sign of salvation, a protection in danger, and a pledge of peace. Whosoever dies wearing this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.”
Note the emphasis on "mary's" protection...not Christ's forgiveness.
Somehow this piece of cloth is more powerful than the blood of Christ????
And your new attempt at defeating Catholicism (criticizing the Carmelite tradition [note the lowercase “t”] about Mt. Carmel and Elijah and Mary) is also answered at the (Catholic.com) link ADSUM provided. (The article by Michelle Arnold). If you bothered to read it in it’s entirety. Which you obviously didn’t.
Your issue is with the people who promote and believe this. I found no correction in the information on this catholic website regarding the scapular. In fact, we have,(from the brochure on the scapular)
Seven hundred years ago She gave Her Scapular to Saint Simon Stock, promising that anyone who wore it at death would Just a few years later, She came again with a more startling promise: “I, the Mother of Grace, shall descend into purgatory on the Saturday after their death and lead to Heaven all those who shall have worn My Scapular and fulfilled My two conditions.” Those aren’t Her exact words, but that’s the substance of them. That’s your ticket: the Scapular of the Blessed Virgin Mary! An old man I knew was very devoted to Mary all his life. High on his list of loving services to Mary was his Scapular practice. For years he asked Her to let him die on a Saturday, Her own special day. One day, he was sitting alone in his third floor flat, bathing tired feet and praying his Rosary. Fifteen minutes later he was dead, Rosary clutched in his hand. The clock was striking eight, Saturday evening! Now about getting that ticket for yourself ... Including the Scapular, there are three conditions: 1) To be enrolled in the Scapular Confraternity once, and to wear the Scapular at all times;
2) To be pure, observing the 6th and 9th Commandments; (I guess the other eight don't count??)
3) To pray each day the Little Office in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (An authorized priest may change that to five decades of the Rosary daily.**)
Further clarification of the requirements are provided in the brochure:
The first condition, to wear the Scapular at all times, is easy. The brown cloth Scapular is what Mary really likes best (see page 21). As for being enrolled in the Scapular, that may have been done at your First Holy Communion. If it wasn’t, almost any priest will do it for you.
The second condition you have to observe already. In case of any sin by impurity, being sorry for it and confessing it (and receiving absolution for it) makes you eligible again for the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Scapular promise.
Thirdly, some authorized priest should assign you a daily duty in honor of Mary. ** (i.e. recitation of the Holy Rosary) http://www.fatima.org/apostolate/pdf/brown_scapular.pdf
I can see why catholic.com wants to clear this up.
To be clear....this is IDOLATRY.
It denies the sufficiency of the one-time sacrifice of the Christ on the Cross when He died for all of our sins and forgives all of our sins as noted in Colossians 1:13-14
Now to address the info at catholic.com.
From the link you provided to catholic.com
I hate to disillusion my reader, but while Carmelites of old cannot be said to have "fibbed," modern Carmelites have been saying "Oops!" for quite some time now about some of the more extravagant claims made by Carmelites down through the centuries about the origins of the Carmelite order and the scapular entrusted to the Carmelites. Being a secular Carmelite myself, I have been one of the modern Carmelites who have said "Oops!" and tried to set the record straight.
So catholicism has to "clean up" what any Christian would know to be a false teaching??
“This origin story sparked a great deal of vigorous debate among historians for centuries, until eventually the weight of historical evidence indicated that there was no direct link between the prophet Elijah and the Carmelites (although Elijah is still considered a spiritual father to the order).”. http://www.catholic.com/blog/michelle-arnold/the-sign-of-the-scapular (Link at that link for more history on the debate if desired)
This next part is beyond amazing....in other words, they made it up! btw...I included the whole paragraph you cited only partially for context.
To fill that void, stories began to circulate that the Carmelites could trace their origins back in a direct chain to the prophet Elijah, who had long been associated with Mount Carmel and was believed to have lived as a hermit there (cf. 1 Kings 18); to all the prophets who followed him; and to Christ and his followers, some of whom it was asserted to continue to live as hermits on Mount Carmel down through the ages. This origin story sparked a great deal of vigorous debate among historians for centuries, until eventually the weight of historical evidence indicated that there was no direct link between the prophet Elijah and the Carmelites (although Elijah is still considered a spiritual father to the order).
And, if it wasn't enough to link themselves directly to Elijah, the Carmelites also began asserting a supernatural origin for their scapular—not the little piece worn by many Catholics today, but the large, full-length scapular that constituted a significant part of the Carmelite habit. When the order was establishing itself in Europe, the garb then worn by the hermits was appropriate to a Palestinian mountaintop but strange in Europe and looked upon with suspicion. Effort was made to alter the habit to something more suited to the society in which the Carmelites now had to live. Instituting the change was slow-going—that is, until the claim was made that the Virgin herself had handed a scapular to St. Simon (who, not coincidentally at all, was an early prior general of the Carmelites in Europe) and promised that "whosoever dies clothed in this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire."
Her attempt at spinning this away is sad.
Were the Carmelites of old "fibbing" about the brown scapular?
No, they firmly believed the origin story handed down to them. It's taken centuries of historical research to sort out fact from pious fiction, and for centuries the pious fiction was passed on as God's truth (literally).
Pious fiction??? Is that next to science fiction in the bookstores??
What has been done by the Church to clear up misconceptions about the brown scapular?
Not long after Vatican II, the feast day of St. Simon Stock was removed from the liturgical calendar of the Carmelite order. It was eventually decided that this step was not necessary, and so the feast day was restored—
with the condition that the liturgy for his feast day could not contain mention of the vision of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the scapular that had been attributed to him.
Just don't mention the vision or the scapular is how the rcc attempts to spin this false teaching away????
Man, the Clinton's would be proud.
You’d be better off wearing a brown recluse spider - it can only kill the body.
If you wear and believe in the brown scapular, you aren’t going to purgatory, nor heaven. That leaves killing the soul.