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Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 11-17-14 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[Salvation]

Catalog of Sin – All Items are in Stock, Free Shipping and Handling from the Supplier

By: Msgr. Charles Pope

The video at the bottom of the page is something of a spoof on drug commercials, treating sin like a drug. Wait till you hear the side-effects disclaimer at the end.

I also thought today of doing a little post on the sins that cry to heaven for vengeance since I was talking to a parishioner today, who is suffering because his employer has not paid him for three weeks. The employer, a shipping agency says this is  due to “administrative difficulties” in the company where he works. He was angry (rightfully so) and getting desperate. I reminded him that withholding wages was a sin that cried to heaven and that God was angry with him. The rest of our conversation I’ll keep private.

With that painful situation in mind, and how the negligent sin of one affects another, it occurs to me offer a few lists of sins, that may prove as helpful reminders to all of us in our struggle against it. Sometimes it helps to see sin in categories and to be able to “name the demons,” as a help to combat them. These are just a few helpful lists. There are others and I invite you to add to them. For the sake of brevity, I do not fully develop them all.

In keeping with the video below, consider these lists a kind of “Sin on Sale” a clearance sale if you will. The lists below can be purchased separately or together in packages. All items are ALWAYS in stock; shipping and handling are free from the supplier. But do beware of the potential and likely side-effects!

The sins that cry to heaven for vengeance: (CCC 1867)

1. Murder (Gn 4:10),
2. Sodomy (Gn 17:20-21),
3. Oppression of the poor (Ex 2:23),
4. Defrauding workers of their just wages (Jas 5:4).

Seven Deadly Sins (more on these HERE)

1. Pride – The sinful drive that distorts proper self love so that we esteem ourself more than is proper.
2. Greed – the excessive and insatiable desire for more than is reasonable or proper.
3. Lust – The sinful drive that leads to an excessive or inappropriate desires or thoughts of a sexual nature.
4. Anger – The sinful drive that leads to inordinate and unrestrained feelings of hatred and wrath.
5. Gluttony – The sinful drive to over-indulge in,  or over consume anything (esp. food and drink to the point of waste.
6. Envy – sorrow or sadness at the goodness or excellence of another person because I take it to make me look bad or less excellent.
7. Sloth – The sinful drive that leads to sorrow or sadness at the good things God wants to do for me.

Sins against the Holy Spirit:

1. Despair,
2. Presumption,
3. Envy,
4. Obstinacy in sin,
5. Final impenitence,
6. Deliberate resistance to the known truth.

Sins against faith: (CCC 2088-2089)

1. Hesitating doubt – delaying the overcoming of doubts, difficulties, or objections due to indifference or laziness
2. Voluntary doubt – disregarding of the truth or on-going resistance to overcoming doubt.
3. Incredulity – willful refusal to assent to revealed truths of the faith.
4. Heresy – the choosing and over-emphasizing of certain truths of the faith to the exclusion of others.
5. Schism – Refusal of submission to the Pope or Catholic communion.
6. Apostasy – Total repudiation of the Christian faith.

Sins against God’s love: (CCC 2094)

1. Indifference
2. Ingratitude
3. Lukewarmness
4. Sloth – sorrow or aversion at the good things offers to the soul
5. Hatred of God – usually rooted in prideful notion that refuses to be second to God.

Sins against the Honor that is Due to God - (CCC 2111-2117)

1. Superstition – the elevation of certain practices such that they are regarded as more important or powerful than prayer or trust in God.
2. Idolatry – divinizing what is not God, false worship, holding creatures more precious than the one Creator who is God.
3. Divination – undertaking practices meant to disclose the future, e.g. horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, recourse to mediums etc.
4. Magic and spiritism – attempts to tame occult powers and place them at our service, or to have power over others in this way.

Sins of Irreligion: (CCC 2118-2128)

1. Tempting God – Putting God to the test
2. Sacrilege – stealing sacred things, profaning sacraments or liturgical actions, desecration or speaking irreverently of sacred persons, places or things that are blessed or consecrated to God.
3. Simony – Buying or selling spiritual things, seeking to profit on them merely because they are blessed.
4. Atheism – Denying the existence of God, to include the practical atheism of materialism and utopian notions that man can save himself.
5. Agnosticism – an indifference toward God that refrains form formally denying his existence.

Sins against the name of God: (CCC 2142-2155)

1. Promises – infidelity to promises or oaths made with God’s name
2. Profanity – using God’s name in vain ways that do not respect its sacred character, (e.g. empty expressions like “Oh my God!”
3. Blasphemy – to speak ill of God, trivialize, curse or ridicule him. By extension, to ridicule sacred things or the Saints.
4. Swearing – calling God to witness in matters that are trivial. Also swearing a false oath, committing perjury when under oath.
5. Cursing – using God’s name to curse or call down evil on others.

Sins against the Lord’s Day: (CCC 2185)

1. Refusing the worship owed God
2. Refusing the joy proper to the Lord’s day
3. Refusing the relaxation of mind and body commanded on the Lord’s day.
4. Refusing reasonable works of mercy proper to the Lord’s day.

Sins Against life: (CCC 2268-2283)

1. Intentional homicide – all unjust killing
2. Abortion
3. Euthanasia
4. Suicide
5. Acting with reckless disregard for the safety and life of our self or others

Sins against Chastity: (CCC 2351-2357)

1. Lust – willfully entertaining inordinate or disordered desires for sexual pleasure
2. Masturbation
3. Fornication
4. Adultery
5. Pornography
6. Prostitution
7. Rape
8. Homosexual Activity

Sins of Injustice and theft: (CCC 2409ff)

1. Theft
2. Deliberately keeping lent things
3. Damaging the goods of others without restitution
4. Fraud
5. Paying unjust wages
6. Forcing up prices
7. Refusing to pay debts
8. Work poorly done
9. Tax evasion
10. Forgery
11. Excessive and wasteful practices
12. Hoarding
13. Excessive and unnecessary exploitation of natural resources
14. Refusing our legitimate obligations to the community
15. Refusing our legitimate obligations to the poor

20 Works of the Flesh

1. Divisions (quarreling) (1 Cor 3:3)
2. Adultery (Gal 5:19)
3. Fornication (Gal 5:19)
4. Uncleanness (impurity or sexual defilement) (Gal 5:19)
5. Licentiousness (abuse of freedom) (Gal 5:19)
6. Idolatry (Gal 5:19)
7. Sorcery (öáñìáêåßá pharmakeia; to administer drugs) for spells or contraceptive and abortifacient effects) (Gal 5:20)
8. Hatred (Gal 5:20)
9. Discord (Gal 5:20)
10. Jealousy (Gal 5:20)
11. Wrath (Gal 5:20)
12. Selfishness (Gal 5:20)
13. Dissension (Gal 5:20)
14. Heresy (Gal 5:20)
15. Envy (Gal 5:21)
16. Murder (Gal 5:21)
17. Drunkenness (Gal 5:21)
18. Reveling (Carousing) (Gal 5:21)
19. Lust (Col 3:5)
20. Concupiscence (evil desires) (Col 3:5)

40 Characteristics of the Ungodly, especially in the last days: (2 Tim 3:2-9; Romans 1:28-29) 

1. Lovers of themselves
2. Covetous
3. Boasters
4. Proud
5. Blasphemers
6. Disobedient to parents
7. Unthankful
8. Unholy
9. Without natural affection
10. Truce-breakers
11. False accusers
12. Without self control
13. Fierce (brutal)
14. Despisers of those who do good
15. Traitors
16. Rash
17. Lovers of pleasure more than God
18. Having the form of Godliness but deny the power of it.
19. Seducers
20. Unteachable
21. Resistant to the truth
22. Suppressing the truth
23. Corrupt minds
24. Foolish concerning the faith
25. Without progress
26. A base mind
27. Futile in their thinking
28. Possessed of darkened and senseless minds
29. Celebratory of and practicing unnatural sexual relations
30. Claiming to be wise but being fools
31. Dishonoring their bodies
32. Haters of God
33. Insolent
34. Inventors of evil,
35. Heartless,
36. Ruthless
37. Faithless
38. Approving sin and those who practice it.
39. Under Strong Delusion (2 Thess 2:11)
40. Blinded by the god of this age (2 Cor 4:4)

Need more Items? Try here: Litany of Penance and Reparation

Just a few helpful lists drawn from the Catechism with reference also to the Catholic Source Book and other places.

So there it is a clearance sale on sin. Now here’s a word from our sponsor!

[defconw]

I know this is going to be held up for derision, but that is exactly why we have Confession. Confession is not what it's made out to be on stupid TV shows and movies. Unless maybe you are 8 years old.

[Tax-chick]

I told the kids, if your stomach hurts or you feel “funny”, then it's wrong.

I tell my classes, "If you plan to lie about it, then you know it's wrong."

[defconw]

Also a good one! Or "would you be comfortable doing whatever it is, in front of your Grandmother"?

I know there is certain element that belittles the use of feelings. But we have instincts just like animals do. We sense danger, we need to follow that flee instinct. I used this to empower kids, not just frighten them into behaving. To ward off peer pressure they need to be empowered and they need to know that the Church has their back.

Sometimes you wonder if the little faces looking at you are getting it. I remember telling them about how the Blessed Mother is a legendary interventionist.

For example, if they are in a situation that they need help to get out of, call on her. I figure most blew it off, some on here will raise a fit over it.

Well months later a youngster came to me and asked me if I remembered what I told them about the Blessed Mother? She then went on to explain that she was in a situation that could have become very serious. She saw no way to get out and not have her friends think she was not cool. We all know that it is very important for JR. High kids to not get singled out for any reason. So she did what I told her and out of the clear blue sky, her older brother drove up. He did not even live in that town anymore. He had no way of knowing why he was there. She didn't even tell him he had saved her from a situation. She jumped in the car.

I don't believe in coincidences!

[Taxman]

The good Monsignor’s list (virtually every item on it!) pretty well defines Ophonybama, his posse, LIEberals in general and most politicians, doesn’t it?

Not to mention the Democrat playbook!

Is it 2017, yet?

[Tax-chick]

I don't believe in coincidences!

My mother keeps saying that, too!

Sometimes (often ...) children are looking to excuse themselves and avoid saying, "I knew X was wrong, but I did it anyway." The more tools we can give their consciences - to remind them that, yes, they really do know this is wrong - the more likely they are to make a right choice when it's time.

[defconw]

Spiritual Armour! I worked with JR. high kids and they would rather die than stick out. It's just the age. I very wise youth leader taught me this. She said they already think they are on a stage and everyone is looking at them. That is why they are so sensitive to everything.

You use whatever you have in your tool box.

[Salvation]

Great story....she didn’t have to walk home with those questionable and taunting “so called” friends.

[Salvation]

Or RCIA teachers.

[NorthMountain]

Compare the democrat party platform to the Ten Commandments ...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Wow, is that a good article! He includes sins that many of us engage in all the time while not even thinking about it. Thanks for posting!

[Tax-chick]

She said they already think they are on a stage and everyone is looking at them.

Yes, that's true. I keep it in mind when my own children are that age.

[defconw]

Exactly. Also I think it also taught her, that she is not alone. The peer pressure they face these days is just horrendous. The parents are not always able to be engaged. It’s been 10 years and I when I get back home. I still see some of them and that makes me happy. They mostly don’t remember me, but I remember them. When I seem them at Mass my heart just soars.

[defconw]

Good Confession list as well.

[defconw]

I believe they are so vulnerable at that age. If you can get them through that stage, you have a good chance of keeping them safe from the devils snares.

people used to think I was crazy for taking on that age. Well, someone has to do it. :) I actually enjoyed them. Even the snotty brat syndrome that comes with it. Sometimes they demand to be treated as grownups and the next minute they are howling with delight over a cartoon. Strange age. But there is still an innocence at that age whether or not they choose to allow you to see it.

[Taxman]

I have. Eye opening, isn’t it, and yet we have people who claim to be “Good Christians” and vote for Democrats?

UnFReakingbelievable!

[Tax-chick]

I teach Sacrament prep for students from 4th to 8th grade, so I get ages about 9 to 15. This year they’re 8 to 12, so it’s not quite as diverse. They’ll all make their confessions this Saturday.

[defconw]

Seems diverse! although there does seem to be something about turning 13 that just gets their little heads spinning.

Do they go face to face? We generally would have a bunch of priests come so that it did not take all day.

[southernmann]

There are a number of sins listed above, that have a qualifying word or phrase attached, such as...improper behavior, extreme, willfulness, inordinate, excessive, etc. What or who is the reference for these subjective levels? That is what I am asking

[southernmann]

Are those with less formed/informed consciences more guilty or less, than those with better formed/informed consciences?

[southernmann]

Not obtuse, a direct response to what you said. So no stomach ache, no sin, is correct, right?