Roughly nine-in-ten U.S. Catholics say they believe in the concept of sin – that there are actions or deeds that can be offensive to God. But there is less unanimity among Catholics about which ...

No. “To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him forever by our own free choice” (CCC 1033). But it is important to understand what ...

Is drinking a sin, or is just drunkenness a sin? Is it only a near occasion of sin? Can having just one drink be a sin for some people but not for others? Steve Ray discusses on Catholic Answers Live.

You may have heard this term growing up in the church or heard it later if you accepted Jesus as your Savior in adulthood. Or maybe you hadn’t heard the term until now, as it isn’t often spoken much ...

Terms like sin and the soul are both old and familiar to most people of faith. How often, however, do we stop and think about the meaning and significance of these terms? In this paper, I would like ...

Sometimes not saying something you ought to say constitutes a lie. But a sin of omission goes far beyond withholding information that a person deserves to know. A sin of omission can come in the form ...

My religious fundamentalist childhood was built around the fear of sin. My daughters don’t even know the word. By Julia Scheeres We were standing in line for meat pies at the Great Dickens Christmas ...

Welcome to Burning Questions, the EarthBeat feature that takes on those questions smoldering in your mind about climate change and religion — from the basics to more complex, and everything in between ...