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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Pre Jesus stuff, that’s Romes problem.
Jesus said: Love one another, in that all the commandments are fulfilled.
And in him all sins are forgiven.
Balcony with wet bar, plz thx
I've already been told that sex for any reason other than procreation is an abomination. So, use a condom, go to hell.
I'm happy I'll have lots of friends there to keep me company.
I figure we have to get some perks for being bad....
Why no pedophilia?
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Actually, when Fox News covered this this morning, they had it on the list and abortion, as well.
BTW, the reporting of this “list” is just stupid. The Vatican has not actually made any sort of new list. This is based on comments by an official who was just trying to point out how certain behaviors unique in our age fall into the area of grave transgressions.
Both remove God from the equation of when new life begins, contraception simply moves the timeline from after to before conception.
Think we should order the Sky Box...there’s gonna be quite a few of us there...
You got that right....A REAL BIG skybox!!
Child molesteringers still protected by the church
Can mortal sins be forgiven? If so, by whom?
He’d better hope that “hubris” isn’t on The Big Guy’s list of deadly sins....
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I suspect it’s covered under the proscription of Pride.
I would like to get a real answer on this.
Where in the Bible does it talk about contraception???
I understand the other issues, but not contraception.
I’m guessing you mean it’s not factual because it isn’t a ‘done deal?’ As if we had any ‘believable’ journalists anymore!
I know I’m going to he[[ too because I had a hysterectomy.
Only the "rhythm method" is morally acceptable to the Catholic Church...but only if it is used to beget babies, not avoid them. (And other forms of...ahem..."release" are strictly out of the question, too.)
Not judging it, just sayin'.
Why worry about what the Bible talks about when you have a Pope to interpret scripture for you.
“Subverting the sovereignty of God: the deliberate act of rendering a sexual act infertile
Genesis 38:8-10
The Bible contains teachings relevant to contraception on a variety of levels. The most direct of these references is Genesis 38:8-10, the Onan Incident:
Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.” And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so it came about that when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground, in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, so He took his life also.
Though God was certainly displeased with Onan’s disobedience to the Levirate Law: that is, the obligation of a man to sow children with his dead brother’s widow, his punishment for Onan far exceeded the penalty mandated for such a crime. According to Deuteronomy 25:5-10, the penalty is for the slighted widow to publicly humiliate the offender. God’s enactment of the death penalty for Onan indicates a heightened seriousness in the offense. The only additional element to Onan’s refusal to provide offspring is his choice to make the sexual act deliberately infertile by withdrawal.”
[source: omsoul.com/pamphlet]
It's interpreted Church canon. There's the whole "be fruitful and multiply" thing, along with inferred lessons from the sin of Onan.
Well, how about you tell us what sex is “for”. Because a lot of people seem to have some wacky ideas about that. But from Biology class I learned as follows:
The Digestive system is for digestion.
The Respiratory system is for respiration.
The Excretory system is for excretion.
The Reproductive system is....?
We don’t need religion to answer that, I think!
It's exactly analogous to binging and purging, except worse, since it's an abuse of one of man's greatest powers, the ability to cooperate in the creation of new souls.
Coercion and subjective understanding can mitigate personal guilt, however.
That prioritization (by the RCC) also has long been hard for me to understand. Putting “wearing a rubber” in the same category as pushing lethal drugs or abortions?
I’m not disparaging that the RCC genuinely reads God’s word that way. I just ... wow.
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