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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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Stupidity does now count for something. Go and vote DemocRATe. You qualify.
With that logic, wearing clothes is also altering your body. So we must be telling God that he got it wrong when he made us naked.
Always the silver lining, eh Tatze? ;o)
Peter didn’t write scripture. God writes scripture. This is my last post in the thread.
That darned apple.
Forget about wearing glasses or contacts. God made you sight-impaired, so you must stay that way! Born deaf? Forget about that cochlear implant! Can't defy God, now can we?
Lets see, what else. No braces. No clothes. No jewelry. No haircuts. The list is almost endless.
Personally, I have no problem with the Vatican’s collection of treasures. In fact, I quite enjoyed viewing the items that they made public. I just have a problem with the “socialistic” nature of that comment and I can imagine the scenario where those treasures would be looted, with the help of that comment.
Of course, I wouldn’t be to surprised if it was twisted in one manner or another.
Wouldn’t that mean there’s no church but the Catholic church? Then how do we explain the ‘seven heads’ in [is it Revelations?] which I’ve alternately heard referred to 7 churches OR 7 governments?
"How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You pretenders! You travel everywhere to win one person to your faith. Then you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
Where do you come up with this nonsense? God INSPIRED the Apostles; however, THEY did the writing.
But you STILL miss the point, why did God inspire Peter to write (or if you prefer why did God Himself write) this warning about Scripture if it wasn't really a problem?
Important part *why* though? I agree with you....but why is it important?
Also, it's happened in many times throughout history where husband and wife could not use their privilege anymore. Either someone gets injured physically, like in war, or someone has an attack of mental illness or something.
So now what? What does the healthy husband/wife do? What is more noble? What is more Christ-like? To stand by the person or get a divorce and go elsewhere because "forced chastity is terrible" and "My needs aren't being met"?
I think the way we answer that question says alot about what we think of marriage. Is it indeed a covenant of love, or is it just an arrangement for sex?
That’s a good question. I have no idea. At first glance it may seem like a “what’s good for the goose. . . “ type situation. Then again. . . Now I’m curious. Lemme find out.
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I had one this morning. Very tasty.
hmmmm ***looking up “pragmatic” in the dictionary***
Yes, it is quite simple. Our Heavenly Father knew that if it weren’t simple, none of us would make it.
Thank God for freedom from the law through faith in Christ, who kept them ALL on our behalf.
Is it fair to infer from your statement that all sexual contact between a husband and a wife, except that which immediately precedes intercourse, is similarly immoral?
Seriously, I wasn’t trying for a “gotcha” question but if the reason why contraception is wrong is that it changes how a system functions, then it seems any kind of fertility treatments at all should also be out of the question.
You are a gem, truly special. Do you work at spreading faith or is it just natural to you?
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