What are Capital Sins? [Seven Deadly Sins]

CatholicEducation.org ^ | 2003 | Fr. William Saunders

[Appleby]

So schadenfreude would fall under envy — even if one did not envy the person in whose downfall one gloried? (e.g. Tony George; Michael Schumacher).

[Mikey_1962]

Mea culpa! I was remembering the genative as the nominative.

8th Grade Parcell Junior High School 1967

[Mad Dawg]

Schadenfreude does, I think, more or less fall under Envy. I would, following Augustine ( more precisely Dorothy Sayers's explanation of Augustine in her notes to the Purgatorio) view the Deadlies as disorders, either in excess or in defect, of Love.

In that scheme envy is insufficient love of our neighbor's good, and certainly "rejoicing at the evil"(1 Cor 13 somewhere or other) is a severe case of failing to love my neighbor's good.

So Spitzer's downfall is a spiritual temptation, and we have, I think, to suppress the urge to cheer and instead to thank God that we have not been so tempted and not so succumbed and to pray that this calamity (for him) be an occasion of his turning to God in repentance.

Yeah, I know that sounds pious, but that's my current struggle as regards Bro. Spitzer.

[Mad Dawg]

I've done worse. The old file-retrieval system gets all messed up, sometimes. I once made "agenda" a feminine singular, much to the contemptuous delight of those around me.

(I run with a rough crowd ....)

[Appleby]

I am not whooping with joy over Mr. Spitzer’s being hoist with his own petard; sanctimony is also a sin.

However, I do have to (and in fact did) confess that I DID whoop with joy every time Michael Schumacher crashed out of a race, and was one of those enjoying his humiliation in Austria after he blatantly stole a race from his teammate and only realized that the entire racing world had seen him do it when he finished his “victory lap” and climbed out of the car.

I would like to say that I piously prayed it would be a lesson to him, but after all, he is German.

[stevem]

Review Later

[ardara]

The Vatican is starting to look again like the last days of Pope John Paul II.No one is in charge.

[Mikey_1962]

(I run with a rough crowd ....)

Wear a cup.

[Salvation]

The posts that got all of this discussion started:

Truth threads

 

The Virtue-Driven Life

The Virtues (counteracting the REAL Seven Deadly Sins)

Media Falsely Portrays (Catholic) Bishop’s Opinion in Interview as ‘New’ Sins

The New Forms of Social Sin (Finally, An English Translation of the Bishop Girotti Interview)

What are Capital Sins? [Seven Deadly Sins]

[Catholic Caucus] The Forum: Not "new sins" but an old media blind spot

Not "new sins" but an old media blind spot (Vatican _DOES_NOT_ Announce Seven New Deadly Sins)

Vatican Lists "New Sins," Including Pollution (Catholic Caucus)

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Falsehood and leftist spin threads

 

Recycle or go to Hell, warns Vatican

UH OH ... NEW SINS FROM THE VATICAN

[Salvation]

If there are other leftist spin threads out there, please send me the freerepublic.com address and I will add it to my list.

What a ride, huh?

[Salvation]

Prayer to be Freed of the Seven Deadly Sins

O meek Savior and Prince of Peace, implant in me the virtues of gentleness and patience. Let me curb the fury of anger and restrain all resentment and impatience so as to overcome evil with good, attain your peace, and rejoice in your love.

O Model of humility, divest me of all pride and arrogance. Let me acknowledge my weakness and sinfulness, so that I may bear mockery and contempt for your sake and esteem myself as lowly in your sight.

O Teacher of abstinence, help me to serve you rather than our appetites. Keep me from gluttony - the inordinate love of food and drink and let me hunger and thirst for your justice.

O Lover of purity, remove all lust from my heart, so that I may serve you with a pure mind and a chaste body.

O Father of the poor, help me to avoid all covetousness for earthly goods and give me a love for heavenly things. Inspire me to give to the needy, just as you gave your life that I might inherit eternal treasures.

O Exemplar of love, keep me from all envy and ill-will. Let the grace of your love dwell in me that I may rejoice in the happiness of others and bewail their adversities.

O zealous Lover of souls, keep me from all sloth of mind or body. Inspire me with zeal for your glory, so that I may do all things for you and in you.

[SuziQ]

This has nothing to do with the Vatican. This was an Archbishop giving his opinion about social conditions.

[Mad Dawg]

LOL.

The kind you can get at the campus bookstore .... in the classics section.

[Salvation]

The envious man is cruel, proud, unfaithful, impatient, and quarrelsome; and, what is strange, when this vice gains the mastery, he is no longer master of himself, and he is unable to correct his many faults. If the bond of peace is broken, if the rights of fraternal charity are violated, if truth is altered or disguised, it is often envy that hurries him on to crime.

— St Cyprian of Carthage