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Catholic Word of the Day: DEADLY SINS, 06-17-14
CCDictionary ^ | 06-17-14 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

Posted on 06/17/2014 8:12:10 AM PDT by Salvation

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DEADLY SINS

 

 

Another name for the seven capital sins. They may be called deadly because they are tendencies to those basic sins which, if deliberately and fully consented to, deprive a person of the supernatural life of God in the soul.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.



TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: catholic
Lust

Greed

Gluttony

Envy

Anger

Pride

Sloth

1 posted on 06/17/2014 8:12:10 AM PDT by Salvation
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2 posted on 06/17/2014 8:23:23 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: All
The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust [Ecumenical]
Five Biblical Lists of Mortal Sins
On Sloth and the Noonday Devil
Anger, Hatred and Irrational Rage
The Deadliest of the Deadlies, Today
The Meanest of the Seven Deadly Sins?
Envy A Capital Sin [Ecumenical]
Understanding God's Anger: Compline, Anger, and God
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Anger and the Anger of God (Quotes from Scripture)

Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 7 Capital Sins and their Contrary Virtues
Prayer to be Freed of the Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins Revisited: Greed
"Care for an Entrée With Your Entrée?" Gluttony, the Forgotten Sin
Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth or 'Acedia'
Seven deadly sins alive and well today, says Jesuit journal
The Virtue-Driven Life
The Virtues (counteracting the REAL Seven Deadly Sins)
What are Capital Sins? [Seven Deadly Sins]
Satan's Arsenal: "The Seven Deadly Sins"
The Anatomy of Envy

3 posted on 06/17/2014 8:24:53 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

What is the origin of designating these 7 deadly sins? I’m curious.


4 posted on 06/17/2014 8:34:38 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: All
Catholic Word of the Day: DEADLY SINS, 06-17-14
Greed: A Brief Meditation on One of the More Underreported Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust [Ecumenical]
Five Biblical Lists of Mortal Sins
On Sloth and the Noonday Devil
Anger, Hatred and Irrational Rage
The Deadliest of the Deadlies, Today
The Meanest of the Seven Deadly Sins?
Envy A Capital Sin [Ecumenical]
Understanding God's Anger: Compline, Anger, and God
Catholic Word of the Day: CAPITAL SINS, 10-26-10
Anger and the Anger of God (Quotes from Scripture)

Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 7 Capital Sins and their Contrary Virtues
Prayer to be Freed of the Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins Revisited: Greed
"Care for an Entrée With Your Entrée?" Gluttony, the Forgotten Sin
Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth or 'Acedia'
Seven deadly sins alive and well today, says Jesuit journal
The Virtue-Driven Life
The Virtues (counteracting the REAL Seven Deadly Sins)
What are Capital Sins? [Seven Deadly Sins]
Satan's Arsenal: "The Seven Deadly Sins"
The Anatomy of Envy

5 posted on 06/17/2014 8:36:28 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: MNDude

Read the parables. Christ spoke of all of them.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 9:08:33 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
Ah yes, the seven deadly ones.
I remember them with the acronym GAP LEGS.

Greed
Anger
Pride -- THIS is usually listed as #1, a source of the others.
Lust
Envy
Gluttony
Sloth

7 posted on 06/17/2014 12:27:39 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Salvation

The Pope leading the way with his “economic redistribution” nonsense.


8 posted on 06/18/2014 7:08:45 AM PDT by onedoug
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