Pope Francis / Sin in our Lives
by Kilian SC · Published November 16, 2018 · Last modified November 15, 2018
Lying or being inauthentic is seriously wrong because it hinders or harms human relationships, Pope Francis said. “Where there are lies, there is no love, one cannot have love,” he said during his weekly...
Church / Church Teaching / Sin in our Lives
by Letters Editor · Published September 19, 2018 · Last modified September 18, 2018
Peter Hendricks, Cape Town – Do you ever hear a priest give a sermon on moral living? God said: “If you love me, keep my Commandments”, but if a priest should ask his congregation...
Jesus / Pope Francis / Sin in our Lives
by Jael SC · Published August 4, 2018 · Last modified August 2, 2018
Idolatry is a human inclination that spares neither believers nor atheists and deprives people of life and love in exchange for slavery to unfulfilled dreams, Pope Francis said. Although wealth, fame, beauty and power...
Abortion / Devil / Evil & Persecution / Life Issues / Magliano / Sin in our Lives
by Tony Magliano · Published July 3, 2018 · Last modified July 2, 2018
In the early months of his papacy, Pope Francis felt the urgent need to courageously preach on the actual existence of the devil, and the grave dangers of not taking his existence seriously (1 Peter 5:8-9).
Letter of the Week / Repentance / Sin in our Lives
by Letters Editor · Published June 26, 2018 · Last modified June 25, 2018
Maria Kruger, Plettenberg Bay – It’s always stimulating to read the letters in your publication. There are so many diverse views, but it’s a pity that writers sometimes get a little mean. Here is...
Holy Spirit / Pope Francis / Sin in our Lives
by Kilian SC · Published June 10, 2018 · Last modified June 7, 2018
Peace is a gift that can easily be destroyed through petty gossip and speaking ill of others, Pope Francis said. People who receive and give the sign of peace “should be men and women of peace” and not ruin “the peace made by the Holy Spirit with your tongue,”
Christian Living / Ethics & Human Dignity / Sin in our Lives
by Kilian SC · Published May 30, 2018 · Last modified May 29, 2018
Loving wealth destroys the soul, and cheating people of their just wages and benefits is a mortal sin, Pope Francis said. Jesus did not mince words when he said, “Woe to you who are rich,” after listing the Beatitudes as written according to St. Luke, the pope said in a morning homily.
Christian Living / Devil / Evil & Persecution / Sin in our Lives
by Jael SC · Published April 12, 2018 · Last modified April 11, 2018
The path to holiness does not involve wrestling with some abstract boogeyman, but involves a “constant struggle against the devil, the prince of evil,” Pope Francis said.
In his new apostolic exhortation, “Gaudete et Exsultate” (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), released by the Vatican, the pope urged Christians not to think of the devil as an intangible construct but rather “a personal being who assails us.”
If Catholic morality in the past seemed so obsessed with preventing sexual sin that it ignored sins of injustice, today “we have gone to the opposite extreme,” seemingly concerned only with how people treat others, not with how they treat the gift of their bodies, the papal preacher said.
Church / God & Salvation / Repentance / Sin in our Lives
by Caleb SC · Published March 18, 2018 · Last modified March 14, 2018
God’s love is never lacking, despite people’s sins and rejection of his presence in their lives, Pope Francis said at a Lenten penance service.
No disease makes a person impure; only sin does that, Pope Francis said. While being sick can impact a person’s whole being, “it in no way impairs or impedes one’s relationship with God.
by Letters Editor · Published February 15, 2018 · Last modified February 12, 2018
Mary was not born with original sin — she is the Immaculate Conception. Painful childbirth is a punishment from God for Eve’s disobedience. After the fall, Eve was told by God that “you will bring forth your children in pain” (Genesis 3:16). Hence Mary was exempt.
