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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“...murder, contraception, abortion, perjury, adultery and lust.”
Added to sloth, greed, pride, envy, gluttony and wrath. Lust was already there. What is the pope trying to tell us, that lust is a double sin?
I guess those condoms ARE that important, dawg! ;o)
Well now, if you are married, you don’t need a condom, and if you are not married, you aren’t supposed to have sex outside of marriage, ergo, why do you need a condom?
/s
ROTFLMAO! ‘FRiends don’t let FRiends vote Dems!’
“Bishop Girotti said that mortal sins also included taking or dealing in drugs, and social injustice which caused poverty or “the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few.””
We need a list of those drugs. And watch out you rich guys!!!
Hah. That "social injustice which caused poverty or “the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few" item suggests that voting Democrat is required....
"Liberation Theology", v2.0.
Pedophilia is on the list.
Of course, our liberal friends won’t prosecute that director who now resides in France - in fact they honor him.
In fairness to that director, he had a sexual liaison with a 13 yr old girl, which, in my opinion, is only “inordo amoris” and not pedophilia.
Another one I wasn’t fond of is “Interferes with Social Justice” (I’m paraphrasing) - social justice is code for leftwing activism and raising taxes, removing property rights, adding a federal beaurocracy to oversee the other useless ones, altogether abolishing private property and outlawing homeschooling - these are all synonyms of “Social Justice”.
Yours truly,
The Woim
Always a silver lining, eh Joisey?!
...and oddly molestering children once again escapes the list
save some space for me
Oh course...
I do not see the moral equivalence between abortion and contraception.
This edict prohibits “cloning”.
Well, since we’ve already accepted abortion in our society, and in fact, most liberals view abortion as social justice and indeed as a social good, perhaps we should clone people.
Let’s clone Maria Sharapova. Clone her 25,000 times over - each family can have a daughter who looks like Maria and we’ll raise her Catholic.
We Catholics can counter argue that cloning will be a way to defeat evil.
Is cloning evil?
Is it?
As a devout Catholic who despises abortion and any other evil, perhaps cloning is going to be our “material” salvation.
Yours truly,
The Woim
If you commit a mortal sin before the pope said it was one, it is still a mortal sin?
I guess the priests had a vote in the new seven???
/s
VERY misleading article.
I know I am going to Hell. i have had a vasectomy.
Cloning has been going on for a century. Not a problem. Even animal cloning is kind of not a concern. But human cloning is way beyond what is prudent whatever the Vatican says.
If after confession who decides one has been penitent enough?
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