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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; DouglasKC
2413 Games of chance (card games, etc.) or wagers are not in themselves contrary to justice. They become morally unacceptable when they deprive someone of what is necessary to provide for his needs and those of others. The passion for gambling risks becoming an enslavement. Unfair wagers and cheating at games constitute grave matter, unless the damage inflicted is so slight that the one who suffers it cannot reasonably consider it significant.

That's the Catechism's word on the subject.

SD

51,697 posted on 05/06/2003 8:40:02 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave; PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; DouglasKC
2413 Games of chance (card games, etc.) or wagers are not in themselves contrary to justice. They become morally unacceptable when they deprive someone of what is necessary to provide for his needs and those of others. The passion for gambling risks becoming an enslavement. Unfair wagers and cheating at games constitute grave matter, unless the damage inflicted is so slight that the one who suffers it cannot reasonably consider it significant.

What's to be expected from the group which invented Bingo?
51,711 posted on 05/06/2003 8:51:23 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE ((I am a cult of one! UNITARJEWMIAN))
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