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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Vatican ping.
God damn, God DAMN, the PUSHER! -— Hoyt Axton
The only one that liberals will accept and popularize - “ruining the environment”.
Why no pedophilia???????????????????????????
More ways to go to H**L?
Would pseudo-science debates count?
What the h-e-double toothpicks does this mean?!! Is it a mortal sin? Yes or no.
contraception? using a condom is now a mortal sin?
The following will send you to hell:
Doing anything in life besides having babies with your spouse, praying, going to church, or reading the Bible.
The end.
I had trouble seeing all seven. The ommissions of pedophilia and beastiality are beyond me.
Would that be covered under adultery and lust?
The tone of that one is all wrong. As written, it implies the question, ‘to whom’ and not ‘to Him.’
And how come “voting Democrat” isn’t included?
So if the bishops of the church refuse communion to politicians who support legalize abortion, 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?
"Doing anything in life besides having babies with your spouse, praying, going to church, or reading the Bible."
"The end."
See you in Hell, RR. At least we won;t be lonely!!
He'd better hope that "hubris" isn't on The Big Guy's list of deadly sins....
See: Lust
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