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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She did indeed. And it's not hard to believe. What is all over mainstream TV now would have been considered pornographic just a few decades ago.
Lord Jesus, save us from ourselves.
You know it is amazing how stupid some people are and you sure qualify. How in the hell do you take it from my statement that I am a dimocrat?
Birth control is an affirmation of atheism
There have been a lot of silly statements on these threads, but I think you might have just won yourself a prize.
Birth control is a big “God get out” sign.
The vast majority of American Catholics disagree with you.
The one-word response to that is the theme of this present penitential season: Repent.
“the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few
Ahh excuse me , when is that a sin ? If the money is made in a legitimate way what;’s wrong with that? Sounds like socialism is infesting he Vatican.
PS Who has more money than the Vatican anyway ?”
Don’t look at me; I’m just quoting the Vatican.
Fair enough, for Catholics. I’ve never understood why the Church doesn’t do something about birth control use, but I guess you can’t really sanction or expel 80% of your flock.
Still doesn’t give any credence to the nonsensical statement that birth control is somehow an “affirmation of atheism.”
You really think that?
Strange. Are you a 16th century Puritan or a Hasidic Talmud scholar, perchance?
I don’t think that. Far from it.
I was pointing out that some Freepers act as if that is so.
(If only...)
"...shouldn't they also do the same to politicians who support legalized contraception? Never mind the rank-and-file Catholics who practice it? And what about politicians who support legalized divorce?"
Advocacy of, funding of, or action as an accomplice to any serious sin, is a sin in itself and if one is conscious of this, he ought not to come foreward to receive the Blessed Sacrament until he has repented and confessed.
If he has done this in a repeated, public, unrepentant way, even after a pastoral warning, it constitutes public scandal, and his Bishop would have to consider Canon 15:
"Can. 915 Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."
There's a pretty good analysis of Canon 915 here --- if you're actually interested in the issues involved.
So...in your opinion yes? Any politician or any member of the church expressing public support for legal contraception or legal divorce should be banned from the sacraments, just as someone publicly supporting legal abortion?
God Almighty.
Who told you that? It's certainly not Catholic doctrine.
The old rule (and still a good one) is: public sin, public penance. It would be instructive --- in fact, a teachable moment --- to see some public penance at a high level. Pedophilia
At the pew level, too. At any level at all.
The Lord Jesus Christ.
Genesis Chapter 38.
With ~300 responses, I will make time to thank you for yours. Many here agree with me that this is poorly written.
I make no apologies for the quality of any of it. [hat tip]
I don't recall who first told me that. It was a thread many months ago. But that basic premise has been restated many times on this thread by several people!
(2)No new sins were "invented," no matter what commentariat says, so this is a non-issue.
I implore you to read the Phil Lawler column before you totally twizzled by Enemedia.
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