[NYer]

- this is a clickable link.

[xjcsa]

Given this view of the Faith, discussions in the press often break down into babble about mortal and venial sin. Little lists are bandied about and we are told, in the words of one MSM magazine: “Mortal sins are those that the sinner knows are serious but nonetheless decides to perform. They include the seven deadly sins as well as countless others, like witchcraft or skipping out on Sunday Mass.” Venial sins, we discover, don’t tick off our inexplicably irritable God as much, but if they pile up, he might lose his always-hair-trigger temper and damn us anyway. Happily, you can “wipe the slate clean” by Confession.

How many Catholics see things this way?