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Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 11-17-14 | Msgr. Charles Pope

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Catalog of Sin – All Items are in Stock, Free Shipping and Handling from the Supplier

By: Msgr. Charles Pope

The video at the bottom of the page is something of a spoof on drug commercials, treating sin like a drug. Wait till you hear the side-effects disclaimer at the end.

I also thought today of doing a little post on the sins that cry to heaven for vengeance since I was talking to a parishioner today, who is suffering because his employer has not paid him for three weeks. The employer, a shipping agency says this is  due to “administrative difficulties” in the company where he works. He was angry (rightfully so) and getting desperate. I reminded him that withholding wages was a sin that cried to heaven and that God was angry with him. The rest of our conversation I’ll keep private.

With that painful situation in mind, and how the negligent sin of one affects another, it occurs to me offer a few lists of sins, that may prove as helpful reminders to all of us in our struggle against it. Sometimes it helps to see sin in categories and to be able to “name the demons,” as a help to combat them. These are just a few helpful lists. There are others and I invite you to add to them. For the sake of brevity, I do not fully develop them all.

In keeping with the video below, consider these lists a kind of “Sin on Sale” a clearance sale if you will. The lists below can be purchased separately or together in packages. All items are ALWAYS in stock; shipping and handling are free from the supplier. But do beware of the potential and likely side-effects!

The sins that cry to heaven for vengeance: (CCC 1867)

1. Murder (Gn 4:10),
2. Sodomy (Gn 17:20-21),
3. Oppression of the poor (Ex 2:23),
4. Defrauding workers of their just wages (Jas 5:4).

Seven Deadly Sins (more on these HERE)

1. Pride – The sinful drive that distorts proper self love so that we esteem ourself more than is proper.
2. Greed – the excessive and insatiable desire for more than is reasonable or proper.
3. Lust – The sinful drive that leads to an excessive or inappropriate desires or thoughts of a sexual nature.
4. Anger – The sinful drive that leads to inordinate and unrestrained feelings of hatred and wrath.
5. Gluttony – The sinful drive to over-indulge in,  or over consume anything (esp. food and drink to the point of waste.
6. Envy – sorrow or sadness at the goodness or excellence of another person because I take it to make me look bad or less excellent.
7. Sloth – The sinful drive that leads to sorrow or sadness at the good things God wants to do for me.

Sins against the Holy Spirit:

1. Despair,
2. Presumption,
3. Envy,
4. Obstinacy in sin,
5. Final impenitence,
6. Deliberate resistance to the known truth.

Sins against faith: (CCC 2088-2089)

1. Hesitating doubt – delaying the overcoming of doubts, difficulties, or objections due to indifference or laziness
2. Voluntary doubt – disregarding of the truth or on-going resistance to overcoming doubt.
3. Incredulity – willful refusal to assent to revealed truths of the faith.
4. Heresy – the choosing and over-emphasizing of certain truths of the faith to the exclusion of others.
5. Schism – Refusal of submission to the Pope or Catholic communion.
6. Apostasy – Total repudiation of the Christian faith.

Sins against God’s love: (CCC 2094)

1. Indifference
2. Ingratitude
3. Lukewarmness
4. Sloth – sorrow or aversion at the good things offers to the soul
5. Hatred of God – usually rooted in prideful notion that refuses to be second to God.

Sins against the Honor that is Due to God - (CCC 2111-2117)

1. Superstition – the elevation of certain practices such that they are regarded as more important or powerful than prayer or trust in God.
2. Idolatry – divinizing what is not God, false worship, holding creatures more precious than the one Creator who is God.
3. Divination – undertaking practices meant to disclose the future, e.g. horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, recourse to mediums etc.
4. Magic and spiritism – attempts to tame occult powers and place them at our service, or to have power over others in this way.

Sins of Irreligion: (CCC 2118-2128)

1. Tempting God – Putting God to the test
2. Sacrilege – stealing sacred things, profaning sacraments or liturgical actions, desecration or speaking irreverently of sacred persons, places or things that are blessed or consecrated to God.
3. Simony – Buying or selling spiritual things, seeking to profit on them merely because they are blessed.
4. Atheism – Denying the existence of God, to include the practical atheism of materialism and utopian notions that man can save himself.
5. Agnosticism – an indifference toward God that refrains form formally denying his existence.

Sins against the name of God: (CCC 2142-2155)

1. Promises – infidelity to promises or oaths made with God’s name
2. Profanity – using God’s name in vain ways that do not respect its sacred character, (e.g. empty expressions like “Oh my God!”
3. Blasphemy – to speak ill of God, trivialize, curse or ridicule him. By extension, to ridicule sacred things or the Saints.
4. Swearing – calling God to witness in matters that are trivial. Also swearing a false oath, committing perjury when under oath.
5. Cursing – using God’s name to curse or call down evil on others.

Sins against the Lord’s Day: (CCC 2185)

1. Refusing the worship owed God
2. Refusing the joy proper to the Lord’s day
3. Refusing the relaxation of mind and body commanded on the Lord’s day.
4. Refusing reasonable works of mercy proper to the Lord’s day.

Sins Against life: (CCC 2268-2283)

1. Intentional homicide – all unjust killing
2. Abortion
3. Euthanasia
4. Suicide
5. Acting with reckless disregard for the safety and life of our self or others

Sins against Chastity: (CCC 2351-2357)

1. Lust – willfully entertaining inordinate or disordered desires for sexual pleasure
2. Masturbation
3. Fornication
4. Adultery
5. Pornography
6. Prostitution
7. Rape
8. Homosexual Activity

Sins of Injustice and theft: (CCC 2409ff)

1. Theft
2. Deliberately keeping lent things
3. Damaging the goods of others without restitution
4. Fraud
5. Paying unjust wages
6. Forcing up prices
7. Refusing to pay debts
8. Work poorly done
9. Tax evasion
10. Forgery
11. Excessive and wasteful practices
12. Hoarding
13. Excessive and unnecessary exploitation of natural resources
14. Refusing our legitimate obligations to the community
15. Refusing our legitimate obligations to the poor

20 Works of the Flesh

1. Divisions (quarreling) (1 Cor 3:3)
2. Adultery (Gal 5:19)
3. Fornication (Gal 5:19)
4. Uncleanness (impurity or sexual defilement) (Gal 5:19)
5. Licentiousness (abuse of freedom) (Gal 5:19)
6. Idolatry (Gal 5:19)
7. Sorcery (öáñìáêåßá pharmakeia; to administer drugs) for spells or contraceptive and abortifacient effects) (Gal 5:20)
8. Hatred (Gal 5:20)
9. Discord (Gal 5:20)
10. Jealousy (Gal 5:20)
11. Wrath (Gal 5:20)
12. Selfishness (Gal 5:20)
13. Dissension (Gal 5:20)
14. Heresy (Gal 5:20)
15. Envy (Gal 5:21)
16. Murder (Gal 5:21)
17. Drunkenness (Gal 5:21)
18. Reveling (Carousing) (Gal 5:21)
19. Lust (Col 3:5)
20. Concupiscence (evil desires) (Col 3:5)

40 Characteristics of the Ungodly, especially in the last days: (2 Tim 3:2-9; Romans 1:28-29) 

1. Lovers of themselves
2. Covetous
3. Boasters
4. Proud
5. Blasphemers
6. Disobedient to parents
7. Unthankful
8. Unholy
9. Without natural affection
10. Truce-breakers
11. False accusers
12. Without self control
13. Fierce (brutal)
14. Despisers of those who do good
15. Traitors
16. Rash
17. Lovers of pleasure more than God
18. Having the form of Godliness but deny the power of it.
19. Seducers
20. Unteachable
21. Resistant to the truth
22. Suppressing the truth
23. Corrupt minds
24. Foolish concerning the faith
25. Without progress
26. A base mind
27. Futile in their thinking
28. Possessed of darkened and senseless minds
29. Celebratory of and practicing unnatural sexual relations
30. Claiming to be wise but being fools
31. Dishonoring their bodies
32. Haters of God
33. Insolent
34. Inventors of evil,
35. Heartless,
36. Ruthless
37. Faithless
38. Approving sin and those who practice it.
39. Under Strong Delusion (2 Thess 2:11)
40. Blinded by the god of this age (2 Cor 4:4)

Need more Items? Try here: Litany of Penance and Reparation

Just a few helpful lists drawn from the Catechism with reference also to the Catholic Source Book and other places.

So there it is a clearance sale on sin. Now here’s a word from our sponsor!

[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

Msgr. Pope Ping!

[ConjunctionJunction]

Bookmark for later.

[defconw]

This would work really well for the Confirmation teachers.

[Ahithophel]

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." Revelation 21:8 (NIV)

The sin not catalogued above, but at the top of the Apostle John's list: cowardice

[afraidfortherepublic]

What about a customer who refuses to pay for goods delivered?

[Salvation]

Check out the Sins against faith again. I think cowardice would fit in there.

[Salvation]

Isn’t that covered in the Sins of injustice and theft?

[GeronL]

he left out “being a protestant” apparently, so I guess it will have to be updated.

[southernmann]

Who gets to determine what is excessive, or improper or just or unjust?

[defconw]

Adults, have a or at least they should have a well developed conscience to inform them. Or baring that,like I told the kids, if your stomach hurts or you feel “funny”, then it's wrong.

[defconw]

Good Lord, they will even argue with us over sin! Saints be Praised! I am grateful to be a Catholic!

[Salvation]

Do you have a well-informed conscience?

Are you aware of the gravity of any such situation?

Do you go ahead and do it anyway?

Then it is a grave sin.

[southernmann]

What about those that do not believe the gravity of a situation is much, but others think differently? Who is correct?

[southernmann]

So if something feels ok, then it is?

[Salvation]

Some have better formed and informed consciences than others.

If they know it’s a sin, then they are taking their eternal life in their own hands rather than turned to God for repentance and forgiveness.

[Salvation]

rather than turning to God for repentance and forgiveness.

[NorthMountain]

Those who recognize the authority of the Scriptures will always have reference to them in these matters. Note that the author cites the Scriptures for many of his references.

Those who recognize the authority of logic and natural law will have reference to these.

Those who, believing themselves to be gods, make up their own rules will simply do whatever they will. Satanists, for example, fall into this last category.

[Ahithophel]

Check out the Sins against faith again. I think cowardice would fit in there.

Agree it would arguably fit in a broad category as would many of the sins identified, but the catalogue should be at least as specific as Scripture and include the chart toppers. Actually, cannot recall ever hearing a sermon or homily on the sin of cowardice, specifically. But it's at the top of, and specifically called out in, St. John's list. Peace, A

[defconw]

OMG! Purposely obtuse, looking for an argument? When I was teaching on sin! The kids would have already have gotten a full body of information on the difference between moral and immoral! That upset in your stomach is GUILT! If you feel that, it means YOU SHOULD NOT DO IT! Is that plain enough for you?