Many supposed "theological differences" between Catholics and Evangelicals are, I think, founded in semantics rather than in substantial disagreement. For example, when I was an Evangelical one of the ...

Religion makes it pretty clear what differentiates mortal sins from venial ones. Mortal are the really bad sins and venial the lesser ones. But in our everyday lives, it can be really difficult to ...

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Seven were the sins—pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth —that the early Christian theologians labeled capital, or deadly, on the ground that they led to the commission of other ...

The Vatican released a list of seven new sins on Monday. Dubbed the “social sins,” they include conducting stem-cell research, polluting the environment, and causing poverty. Along with the old ...

We cannot do justice to the outrageous and textured tale of Sin City, the Bronx strip club, woven by Byron Smith, Ben Kochman and Graham Rayman in today’s Daily News. Please read for yourself of the ...

Last time, in this space, we were looking at the question of mortal and venial sin and trying to understand how St. James remark that "whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become ...