Many supposed "theological differences" between Catholics and Evangelicals are, I think, founded in semantics rather than in substantial disagreement. For example, when I was an Evangelical one of the ...

Q: Is confession required for obtaining a plenary indulgence if there is no mortal sin? A diocesan hermit, who is homebound, ...

The Vatican has reportedly updated its traditional seven deadly sins. New sins include those that the church says are becoming more prevalent in an era of “unstoppable globalization.” Drug pushers, ...

The Vatican released a list of seven new sins on Monday. Dubbed the “social sins,” they include conducting stem-cell research, polluting the environment, and causing poverty. Along with the old ...

Seven were the sins—pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth —that the early Christian theologians labeled capital, or deadly, on the ground that they led to the commission of other ...

Last time, in this space, we were looking at the question of mortal and venial sin and trying to understand how St. James remark that "whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become ...