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I think my friend, Fr. Jim Martin, did an excellent job of explaining where the media went wrong in all the hype about “the new seven deadly sins.” Below I’ve pasted his blog post from “In All Things,” a blog written by “America’s” (the Catholic weekly magazine) editors. But click on this link to read…

Fr. Martin also appeared on National Public Radio to explain the new social sins. Click here to get to his segment. From the interview: “I think it’s to remind people that sins are not just individual,” Fr. Martin says referring to the Catholic church’s old seven deadly sins — lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy…

Okay, so if I was in any doubt that I had committed a mortal sin, now I know God’s nodding his supremely good head. Because also on the NPR site is a review of the “Drivers’ Ten Commandments.” Umm. Yikes. I didn’t think to take into consideration all my temper tantrums in traffic, and to…

Confession: I had to consult my “Catechism of the Catholic Church” today to review what, exactly, is a mortal sin: A grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the divine life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away from God. For a sin to be mortal, three conditions…
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