Venial sins do not imperil our souls in the same way that a mortal sin would, but it's still important to strive to avoid ...

1 Peter 1:7 Another commonly misunderstood teaching of the Church concerns Purgatory ... Unfortunately very serious sin - mortal sin - "kills" our friendship with God. By willfully committing ...

Now according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): An ... of our sin is forgiven by God through His Church. So the forgiveness of mortal sin includes the remission of eternal punishment.

COMMENTARY: Lent is the perfect time to rediscover the Act of Contrition and the divine mercy it calls us to embrace.

By T. Gamble. My daughter is getting married later this year. She is marrying into a Catholic family. I have no real problem with that but do note that the Catholic faith has cert ...

Until the 1930s, the Catholic Church was not alone in its ... To interfere with God's will was a mortal sin and grounds for excommunication. The Purpose of Intercourse For the Vatican, the primary ...