[boatbums]

Well, here's the Catechism's attempt to define sins:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c1a8.htm

Here's another stab at mortal sins:

http://saintrobertbellarmine.blogspot.com/2007/11/examination-of-conscience-mortal-sins.html

Interestingly, this lists "Leaving the Catholic Faith for another religion or practice" as a MORTAL sin. Others it lists are:

Willful failure to fast and abstain on Ash Wednesday/Good Friday

Missing mass intentionally on Sunday or Holy Days

Willfully working at a task for more than a few hours on Sunday regularly

Then, there's venial sins:

http://saintrobertbellarmine.blogspot.com/2007/11/have-you-examined-your-conscience.html

A few that I noticed:

Excessive use of TV, video games, use of cell phones or computer

Excessive blogging

[marajade]

what about Galatians 5:19?

[ealgeone]

Good grief.

The Roman Catholic Church has updated the OT Law for modern times.

Pretty soon they'll be told they can only walk so many cubits a Sunday.

Willful failure to fast and abstain on Ash Wednesday/Good Friday

Just more evidence of non-Scriptural positions by Roman Catholicism.

[ealgeone]

Treating others unfairly

Doesn't that kinda violate the Golden Rule?

This is only a venial sin???????

Who are they trying to kid?

I guess if they made it a mortal sin, Roman Catholics would be lined up outside the doors. They'd never get through all the confessions.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Interestingly, this lists "Leaving the Catholic Faith for another religion or practice" as a MORTAL sin.

😂

[Elsie]

Interestingly, this lists "Leaving the Catholic Faith for another religion or practice" as a MORTAL sin.

Of course!

That was explained SO long ago!!

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"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours."

--Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)

[Mark17]

My oh my oh my. One almost has to have a Sac State law degree, to decipher all those little intricate details about mortal sins and venial sins. Now, maybe you can understand why I didn’t pay attention in Catechism class. I keep saying, all I wanted to do, was flirt with the girls in class, and go play hockey 🏒 Judging by the amount of flirting that was going on, I don’t think the girls paid much attention either. 😁
I missed mass a lot, received communion with mortal sins on my soul. I was in deep doo doo.
Then I noticed things like drunk driving, excessive use of TV, cellphone, gaming, computer usage and blogging.
That is very interesting. Do you suppose maybe these are some of the traditions Peter, Paul and James, the half brother of Jesus, the son of Mary and Joseph, were teaching, that never got written down? You know, those traditions that people keep asking the Catholics for, but never get a list of them. Those traditions?
Then, like you, I committed the most heinous of all mortal sins. I left the Catholic Church. Oh well, I will have to live with that, till the day I kick the crockpot. You have to remember, my wife speaks three languages, English being her 3rd language. She thought it was kick the crockpot. I had to explain to her, no dear, it’s kick the bucket. 😁😆👍