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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!

[Tax-chick]

Do they go face to face?

We have a batch of priests, too. If they go in the actual confessional, they don't have to go face to face, but the others are just sitting about in various rooms.

[cloudmountain]

he left out “being a protestant” apparently, so I guess it will have to be updated

Why, that's not a sin. It's just a "failure to communicate."

[defconw]

I almost never go in the Confessional. Face to face works.

[defconw]

LOL! That is a great way to put that.

[cloudmountain]

What about those that do not believe the gravity of a situation is much, but others think differently? Who is correct?

I had that attitude when I was in my late teens. I asked a priest about it. He said that I had a malformed conscience.

He was correct. I wanted to do something that was a sin and I tried to talk myself into it NOT being a sin. That works for about ten seconds.

Sociopaths have malformed consciences. YOU don't have a malformed conscience. You know better at all times.

[cloudmountain]

:o)

Thank you, Strother Martin, from Cool Hand Luke.

[defconw]

LOL!

[cloudmountain]

Those that are not Catholic and do not have a shared body of knowledge...what about them?

We lived in a Muslim country for five years. THEY have the same concept of sin that we have. Yes, what ISIS is doing is considered criminal and sinful to those Muslims who are good Muslims.

The Koran, after all, is really a knock-off of the Bible, MOSTLY the Old Testament. And yes, I happen to have a Koran too. My husband got it as a gift from his boss when we left the country (KSA).

[Tax-chick]

It’s fine for me, too. I have no trouble telling my Weight Watchers meeting everything I’ve done, either ;-).

I like the children to know they have the option, though, in case of a burst of shyness.

[defconw]

Absolutely! I like that there is an option. I used to go in if I didn’t know the priest, then I thought to myself you don’t KNOW the priest. Duh!

[Salvation]

I thought about putting it in the Examination of Conscience list.

[southernmann]

What would be the objective truth in this instance?

[southernmann]

How do you know the priest was correct? And why would you let another person determine the state of your conscience?

[southernmann]

That’s nice

[NorthMountain]

You'll have to be specific as to what "this instance" is.

At the moment, you seem to be asking "What is truth?"

I've seen that question before.

[defconw]

This works pretty well for that as well. If I were still teaching I would use this list. You could teach a year on this easy.

[cloudmountain]

How do you know the priest was correct? And why would you let another person determine the state of your conscience?

The priest ONLY knows what I tell him, that is, his words are because of what I confessed. He can know nothing more of any penitent than what s/he tells him.

The priest is governed by the Ten Commandments...and God told us those. God determined our conscience many thousands of years ago.

His correctness follows those Ten Commandments, nothing more or nothing less.

[cloudmountain]

It’s fine for me, too. I have no trouble telling my Weight Watchers meeting everything I’ve done, either ;-).
I like the children to know they have the option, though, in case of a burst of shyness.

Weight Watchers? Me too, every Monday morning.
Some weeks I feel chatty, some weeks I don't say a word. Ah me, the quest to lose continues. It doesn't get much easier does it? BUT, it works so I'm sticking with it.

[Tax-chick]

I go on Tuesdays. It’s only $14 a week (if I’m not at goal), much cheaper than a therapist.

[southernmann]

I see.

If there is a list of actions that someone is not supposed to do, yet they want to...they have a malformed conscience...according to those that follow the list.