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 ...

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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 ...

Sin: Ask anyone what it is, and you'll get as many definitions as people you query. But are all sins equally bad? Will one be as condemned for complimenting a co-worker on a bad haircut as for lying ...

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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 ...