“There are venial sins and there are mortal sins. It is one thing to owe ten thousand talents, another to owe but a farthing. We shall have to give an accounting for an idle word no less than for adultery. But to be made to blush and to be tortured are not the same thing; not...
even what may seem like minor sins still reveal humanity’s need for redemption through Jesus Christ. Unlike the Catholic view, which differentiates between mortal and venial sins, this perspective underscores the idea that salvation is entirely dependent on faith in Christ’s atoning sacrifice, rat...
Historic Catholic theology would say that those sins which do not change our fundamental option are venial sins and that those sins which do change it are mortal sins. Whenever a person commits a mortal sin, he has changed his fundamental option and chooses to be against God; he loses the ...
Paragraph 1471 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that an indulgence is “a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.” There are two types of indulgences: partial and plenary. Partial indulgences remove some of the temporal puni...
It’s for those who die in grace, but haven’t satisfied for the temporal punishment due to their forgiven mortal or venial sins, which were committed after baptism.THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT THERE ARE MORTAL SINS AND LESSER (VENIAL) SINS
My question is, if this is the case, does the absolution carry for all the sins I had to miss (mortal and/or venial) or should I find another priest and confess the sins I missed? From the onset, thanks for that intro, which made me think of the late, great Rush Limbaugh and ...
Penance/Reconciliation (for sins after baptism) Eucharist or the Lord’s Supper (for all believers) The last two (Penance and the Eucharist) are the most divisive in separating Protestants & Catholics. The Roman Catholic view and the Protestant view of Sacraments differ in ...
Catholic wants to read the Bible. I will say, though, that I live in a largely Catholic town, have lots of Catholic friends, and I would be generous to say that 1 in 50 had ever read the Bible at all. The Bible mentions nothing about Limbo, Purgatory, penances, venial sins, Peter...
… For many years, I have had the understanding that only perfect contrition satisfies for the forgiveness of mortal sins in confession, whereas, imperfect contrition (fear of the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell} only satisfies for venial sins, but leaves the soul open to the potential...