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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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This article doesn't list them all, but there's more for liberals to love, including causing social injustice, causing poverty, and becoming obscenely wealthy.
Seems like the liberals are in charge at the Vatican.
The things in the title have always been sins. When you prepare for confession, you will find that sins are grouped under general categories according to which Commandment they violate. Within this, there are the specific sins that people might confess. In addition, there are (or were, at least) guidebooks for confessors called “penitenciaries” that enumerated the sins and specified the penances.
Abortion has always been a sin, contraception has always been a sin, getting a vasectomy has always been a sin, pedophilia and all the other “philias” have always been sins. The only thing different in this article is that some ding-dong lefty cardinal has come out with the stupid and meaningless “environmental and social sins” that were popular under JPII. These things are not sins, because they are not something you do personally; you can’t confess them, and they only exist to confuse people with lefty gobledy gook, diminish the sense of sin, and devalue the sacrament of Confession, which is what the liberals wanted to do all along.
Holy Shi*. I mean literally.
I’m an evangelical Christian, so I’m just trying to figure out where the Pope gets his information.
It’s always nice to see what other Christians are thinking.
For example, my church doesn’t allow women to be preachers. I understand where that came from. However, I went to another church that did allow women preachers, and I heard their side of the argument. Actually, both churches made good arguments, so I don’t know where I come down on the issue.
I get the OT stuff but didn’t Jesus Christ change all that?
My husband is Catholic and we had to go to his church for pre-marriage counseling, even though we were to be married in my church with my preacher. A couple tried to explain the taboo on contraception to us, but it was like the game Six Degrees of Separation. You know, everything is related to the next but yet the first thing has nothing to do with the last. Anyway, they told me that NFP was okay, and I asked what the difference was between NFP and contraception. They could not answer. To me, abstaining from sex during fertile periods is birth control.
...and oddly molestering children once again escapes the list
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I assume you mean “molesting”, which is on the so-called list presented by this bishop’s comments, viz., pedophilia. (I guess your reading ability was impaired by your anti-Catholic bias. )
Fortunately, the drink selection will be good
I’m not dead yet!
I thought so. I’ve never really ‘gotten it’ about the Old Testament. All the ‘family tree straight up’ stuff.
So, once you’ve decided you want no more children, your sex life is over?
Have fun with that!
Many contraceptives work by preventing the fertilized egg from attaching to the wall of the uterus, thus preventing it's development. For those who think human life begins at conception, that's the same as any other form of abortion.
I think it depends on how you view the word, “man.”
I used to think it meant that man is the male sex. But come to maybe think it might mean “human” both male and female.
I’m kinda coming down on the side that women can be preachers.
But hey, that’s my own understanding between what I read in the Bible and the holy spirit. Not an understanding I get from a leader in an organization where one worships.
We evangelicals do interpret things differently than Catholics.
Every interpretation on be fruitful and multiply I’ve heard is in regards to missions and evangelizing, not on sex.
Oh well, I’ll just have to ask God about these when I go to heaven.
As part of this Christians need to become more militant against those powers which would use force against us, i.e. Islam.
Turning the other cheek refers to personal issues, not the clash of societies.
Here's the difference. Birth control is not just abstaining from sex. It is making a conscious choice to have the pleasure of sex but then to deliberately make it artificially infertile.
It is the same difference as dieting vs. bulimia. With dieting, you just practice a little self-restraint. With bulimia, you are seeking the pleasure of eating in an illicit way.
It might interest you to know that virtually every Christian denomination before about 1930 taught the immorality of birth control.
MORTAL AND VENIAL SINSin that does not lead to death = venial sinIf anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that. All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
“Turning the other cheek refers to personal issues, not the clash of societies.”
And ‘politically correct’ refers to stupid politicians. We need Zulu to be president of the new smart church of politicians!
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