Friday, August 17, 2012

Eight Deadly Sins for Nu-style Catholic Christians (and still counting)

  1. Describing oneself as "Catholic", not "Catholic Christian" or Christian
  2. Triumphalism
  3. Ultramontanism
  4. Devotion and prayer to "Saints"
  5. Belief in Transubstaniation and the real efficacy of the Sacraments
  6. Belief in the Four Last Things
  7. Intolerance, including failure to fully respect diverse opinions and those who hold them
  8. Failure to embrace Deep Ecology

There are probably more, and your suggestions are very welcome.

3 comments:

Mike Cliffson said...
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Left-footer said...

Mike - Brilliant! I'd never even thought of most of these.

Thanks and God bless!

Mike Cliffson said...

Typos:
From experience any number connected with more than 1.2 kids.
Sample:
Such as, 2 close together with no apology, 3 even apologizing for their existance and/ or not blaming NFP "failures"...
having a large wrigglesome brood that are nonetheless mostly nearly silent or at least many decibels quieter at mass than someone else-a martyr-'s singletons.
Taking out of church a child even a small one that continues to misbehave at mass after one warning.
Compound of the above, forgivable only at highest levels, if ever: smacking its bottom outside church.
With a months-old or so baby in the "crying room",where available: actually trying to follow mass through the glass and over the loudspeakers: (probably venial) disturbance of the other- chatting- parents there.

And a VERY long etc