Posted on 03/10/2008 10:21:49 AM PDT by Froufrou
The list came as the Pope deplored the “decreasing sense of sin” in today’s “secularized world” and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession.
The Catholic Church divides sins into venial, or less serious, sins and mortal sins, which threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession and penitence.
It holds mortal sins to be “grave violations of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes,” including murder, contraception, abortion, perjury, adultery and lust.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into Hell.”
Although there is no definitive list of mortal sins, many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or capital vices laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularized in the Middle Ages by Dante in "The Inferno": lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride.
Christians are exhorted instead to adhere to the seven holy virtues: chastity, abstinence, temperance, diligence, patience, kindness and humility.
Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican body which oversees confessions and plenary indulgences, said after a week-long Lenten seminar for priests that surveys showed 60 percent of Catholics in Italy no longer went to confession.
He said that priests must take account of “new sins which have appeared on the horizon of humanity as a corollary of the unstoppable process of globalization.” Whereas sin in the past was thought of as being an individual matter, it now has “social resonance.”
“You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor’s wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos,” he said.
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Now it's a mortal sin to buy an SUV.
If you can, please find the link. I think it would be helpful to have it. Thanks!
Trilla, that’s very pragmatic! Dog, I drive an SUV so I guess you know where to find me!
I’d have to read 2 Peter.
But to limit it to First John I believe First John in the chapter five is talking about the sin of death that being when one leads another to spiritual death, not specific sins.
CSM you have certainly made a good point. And I know quite a few Catholics who have a problem with that, among other complaints.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and best navigated with a big fat SUV.
So you either have a lot of kids, or no sex life.
Also, with contraception women become mere sex toys.
Who says it isn't the man who is the sex toy?
1 John is talking about continuous sin ( the greek verb mean to continuous action)sinning on and on and without repentance
In relation to 2 Peter. You’re complicating things when they really aren’t.
Jesus saves.
Thats what I’ve been telling my wife when explaining why my daughter doesn’t need braces.
You know that old joke, don't call me for bail money, 'cause I'll be sitting in the cell next to you?
Try to find us a shady spot, k?
RS
I’ve got a suggestion for an eigth sin: How about being Catholic and voting Democrat?
How can you know anything scripturally if you have to use the word "maybe" when parsing a verse?
"So, once you’ve decided you want no more children, your sex life is over? Have fun with that!"
Oooh! We wouldn't want our *sex lives* to be over would we!!! Because it's soooo horrible to be chaste! It's not like Jesus or St. Paul ever lived that way or anything! /sarc
Neither Jesus nor Paul was married, were they?
Sex is an important part of a healthy marriage. In that context, yes. Forced chastity is terrible.
And of course, their doctrine also states (unchanged since Trent), that only their priests can absolve sins. Not in communion with the Vatican? No hope. The’ve got it locked down.
Which is pretty funny, if you think about it. This can go two ways. First, Jesus had all those apostles. In modern times he would have needed at least two Suburbans. Second, he was a carpenter. Today he would have need a huge diesel powered pickup truck. I don’t think WWJD applies to the environment.
Will God be in trouble when He burn up 1/3 of the vegetation in the tribulation? Will Jesus pollute when he strikes down millions of sinful rebels in the valley of Mageddo?
Why would Peter have written those verses if he wasn't aware that people were misinterpreting scripture?
Is that how you do this YOPIOS thing? Is every verse that contradicts your own interpretation just "complicating things"?
Then is it permissable for me to alter my body to help conception, or is that telling God He got that wrong too?
Which parts of my system am I allowed to change from the original operating condition?
Yes. We look only at animal cloning. There is more to the world than animals.
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