The degree of moral assurance of salvation we can attain to is very high. The point is to examine ourselves to see if we are ...

"Adultery, fraud, and manslaughter are mortal sins." St. Cyprian of Carthage, "Treatise VII," c. 250 A.D. "The clergyman who is deposed for mortal sin, shall not be excommunicated." St. Basil the ...

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.

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 ...

According to Catholic belief, the soul of the dead can go to either one of these three places. The first is heaven, where a ...