It's no wonder Kevin Smith made the controversial religious satire Dogma, as his Catholic faith has been strongly knotted ...

BENITES 7,5 His offensive turnover is concentrated almost exclusively in the first two quarters, but the defense that in the ...

Is it a mortal or venial sin? Or are they more lenient these days? Can you please, please help me? -- Frustrated Dear Frustrated: According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, masturbation is still ...

Third, according to Catholic teaching, Mawdsley is in a state of mortal sin. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains how while “a lie in itself only constitutes a venial sin, it becomes ...

Venial sins do not imperil our souls in the same way that a mortal sin would, but it's still important to strive to avoid committing even venial sins. Your browser ...

Q: At a recent Mass, the priest talked about “mortal sin,” about which I’d previously heard, but then he mentioned “venial sins” and “temporal sins,” and even “sins of omission.” I’m not familiar with ...

Once at the heart of the religious practice for millions of American Catholics, the sacrament of confession could become a ...

The judge called the fraud at the heart of the trial a "venial sin, not a mortal sin", adding in his written verdict: "They did not rob a bank at gunpoint. Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff.

But these are venial sins, not mortal sins. Biden’s predecessor/successor fell from grace years ago and is a serial sinner of the mortal kind. And not just personally (although he is ...

The justices grilled a government lawyer for a clearer definition of the term, with Justice Neil Gorsuch even asking at one point, “Is it a sin? Are we now talking about … a venial sin?

“Let’s go back to the word SIN. There are three sins into which Milan has fallen. The original one, the mortal one, the venial one, serious but still remediable. “The ORIGINAL sin dates back ...

He cursed too much. He economized on the truth too much. He denigrated too much. But these are venial sins. Americans do not want to be ruled by Savonarola or St. Francis of Assisi. They want and ...