tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post1472410123835814841..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Don't believe in mortal sin?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-3480532550969267002013-03-06T20:53:26.659-05:002013-03-06T20:53:26.659-05:00This really is both encouraging... It is forthrigh...This really is both encouraging... It is forthright and not mealy-mouthed, and frustrating... It leaves unaddressed the sorts of questions that caused the doctrine to begin to be questioned in the first place. Is missing mass a mortal sin? Fornication? Masturbation? If so and there has been a forty year silence on this, how can it begin to be explained in light of the CHurch as the indefectable teaching authority it is supposed to be?JFMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05496819581817926605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-38541564971313064782013-03-06T09:23:26.624-05:002013-03-06T09:23:26.624-05:00I'm going to give you a quandary...or riddle..... I'm going to give you a quandary...or riddle...or zen koan.<br />Aquinas said the death penalties for sins in Leviticus and Deuteronomy still exist in the new covenant not as physical events but as tells...signs... as to which sins are mortal.<br />However in the OT, the consensual premarital sex couple are not killed but are to marry and, unlike other Jews, are never allowed to divorce. Strange exception...with a penalty which is a hidden blessing and is a prediction of Catholic marriage...no divorce.bill bannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09737277581167437670noreply@blogger.com