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Vatican Adds Deadly Sins - Studies of Catholicism - Posted: 4th Oct, 2008 - 1:04am
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Vatican Adds Seven New Deadly Sins
What do you think about the new 7 deadly sins the Catholic Church have added?
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| ROME - Drug pushers, the obscenely rich, environmental polluters and "manipulative" genetic scientists beware - you may be in danger of losing your mortal soul unless you repent. After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalization. The list, published yesterday in L"Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the "decreasing sense of sin" in today's 'secularized world" and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession. The Catholic Church divides sins into venial, or less serious, sins and mortal sins, which threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession and penitence. It holds mortal sins to be "grave violations of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes," including murder, contraception, abortion, perjury, adultery and lust. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that "immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into Hell." Although there is no definitive list of mortal sins, many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or capital vices laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularized in the Middle Ages by Dante in "The Inferno": lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride.... |
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I can't say that I agree with all of these, although having said that, I myself am not Catholic. All of my in-laws are Catholic, so no doubt they'll probably think that it's good, because the Pope says that's how it should be.
The one point that doesn't seem right to me is the accumulating of wealth by a few individuals...in my opinion, I don't have a problem with some people being stinking rich, it doesn't always mean that they don't or can't help others with it, and I don't think that anybody has a right to say that this is a 'deadly sin'...this coming from one of the wealthiest religions on the planet riles me slightly..
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Sins Deadly Seven Adds Vatican
Pope Benedict Renews Catholic Opposition to Birth Control, Contraception
The Vatican (LifeNews.com) -- Pope Benedict XVI renewed the position of the Catholic Church on Friday against the use of birth control and contraception. The position is part of the panoply of Catholic pro-life teachings that also include opposition to abortion, euthanasia and bioethics practices like human cloning and embryonic research. The pontiff's comments came on the 40th anniversary of the encyclical that originally announced the comprehensive teaching. Pope Benedict called the original encyclical "an important document which addresses one of the essential aspects of the marital vocation and of the specific path of holiness that follows from it." He said the use of birth control "means negating the intimate truth of conjugal love, with which the divine gift (of life) is communicated." The pope appeared to acknowledge dissident Catholics who depart from the practice but did not back down in supporting the Catholic Church's themes.
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