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VATICAN ADDS SEVEN NEW DEADLY ‘MORTAL’ SINS
SOLIDIFYING ‘FEAR’/AND PROTECTING A CRUMBLING CONTROL
AGAINST: ABORTION/CONTRACEPTION/DRUG-TAKING/DRUG DEALING/
POLLUTING/GENETIC ENGINEERING/PEDOPHILIA/SOCIAL INJUSTICE
*’Sweeps NOTE:
…Keep this in mind:
Lawyers destroy justice
Universities destroy Knowledge,
Governments destroy freedom,
Major media destroy Information, and
RELIGION destroys spirituality
,,,AND…Consider this ‘PAPAL INFALLIBILITY’ thing:
The ‘Person’ of a reigning POPE is by Traditional Church Teachings/Supernatural Prerogative/and ‘Special Devine Assistance’…is immune and exempt from ‘ANY ERROR’ in matters of ‘FAITH AND MORALS’…in His judgments or decrees in those areas.
OK…The MEANING OF INFALLIBILITY in the Roman Catholic Church…stems from:
An ‘Irrational’ assumption-based on ‘THEIR’ Falsification of History:
• that Christ founded His Church as a visible and perfect society;
• that He intended it to be absolutely universal and imposed upon all men a solemn obligation actually to belong to it, unless inculpable ignorance should excuse them;
• that He wished this Church to be one, with a visible corporate unity of faith, government, and worship; and that
• in order to secure this threefold unity, He bestowed on the Apostles and their legitimate successors in the hierarchy -- and on them exclusively -- the plenitude of teaching, governing, and liturgical powers with which He wished this Church to be endowed.
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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.
Christians are exhorted instead to adhere to the seven holy virtues: chastity, abstinence, temperance, diligence, patience, kindness and humility.
Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary…the Vatican body which oversees confessions and plenary indulgences…said after a week-long Lenten seminar for priests that surveys showed 60 percent of Catholics in Italy no longer went to confession.
He said that priests must take account of “new sins which have appeared on the horizon of humanity as a corollary of the unstoppable process of globalization.” Whereas sin in the past was thought of as being an individual matter, it now has “social resonance.”
“You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor’s wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos,” said he.
Bishop Girotti said that mortal sins also included taking or dealing in drugs, and social injustice which caused poverty or “the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few.”
He said that two mortal sins which continued to preoccupy the Vatican were abortion, which offended “the dignity and rights of women,” and pedophilia, which had even infected the clergy itself and so had exposed the “human and institutional fragility of the Church.”
The mass media had “blown up” the issue “to discredit the Church,” but the Church itself was taking steps to deal with it, according to Girotti.
Addressing the Apostolic Penitentiary seminar, the Pope said there was “a certain disaffection” with confession among the faithful. Priests had to show “divine tenderness for penitent sinners” and admit their own failings.
“Those who trust in themselves and in their own merits are, as it were, blinded by their own ‘I’, and their hearts harden in sin. Those who recognize themselves as weak and sinful entrust themselves to God, and from Him obtain grace and forgiveness.”
The Pope also complained that an increasing number of people in the secularized West were ‘making do without God’.
He said that hedonism and consumerism had even invaded ‘the bosom of the Church itself, deeply undermining the Christian faith from within, and undermining the lifestyle and daily behavior of believers’.
Eastern Orthodox Catholics do not recognize this distinction between mortal and venial sins as the Western or Latin Church does…nor do they believe that those people who die in a state of sin are condemned to automatic damnation .
**Maybe the 'Eastern Catholic Church' will see an INCREASE BY disenchanted 'Romans'/'S'
Thanks/'S'
