15 Mortal sins Catholics are frequently missing in their confession

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Items 3 and 12 are questionable as to their stringency. Beyond that, it looks like a pretty good list to me.
 
I don’t really think masturbation is a mortal sin in most cases.
Most people who can’t control themselves in that regard have some sort of addiction or emotional issues going on that can lessen or even remove culpability.
 
I always heard oral sex within marriage was acceptable as foreplay. Is it wrong?
 
Well maybe they have lessened culpability, but it’s certainly a problem if they can’t control themselves
 
Fr Nix is a really strong orthodox Catholic priest who upholds all the tenets of the Catholic faith.
 
Masturbation is a grievous matter and needs to be confessed each time it is committed
 
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Mistake number 2

Masturbation before marriage.

No where in scriptures is this written ?

Yes if you are selfish in marriage or a loving relationship.
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The Church considers masturbation a grave sin, regardless of whether you are doing it in marriage or outside marriage.

It is not somehow okay to do it when you are unmarried.

The Church also does not rely solely on sacred scripture for its teachings.
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I don’t really think masturbation is a mortal sin in most cases.
Most people who can’t control themselves in that regard have some sort of addiction or emotional issues going on that can lessen or even remove culpability.
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You can’t know what’s in the head of every person who masturbates. It is definitely a grave sin. For some people it might be a mortal sin if they did it with totally free will, in other words they do not have an addiction or emotional issues. I doubt that everyone who masturbates has an addiction; plenty of people just choose to do it and could choose to stop doing it.

However, you have made a good point about the author going on about “Mortal Sin”. We cannot create blanket categories of “Mortal Sins”. The Catechism (CCC 1857) states, " For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent."
So you need
  1. Grave matter: All of the sins on the list are, or in some cases (such as the clothing part) could be, grave matter.
  2. Full knowledge: A person might not have full knowledge that these actions could be grave sins, as the author notes himself in his article.
  3. Deliberate consent: There are a host of situations where someone might commit a sin off the list without deliberate consent to it. An addiction (to drink, drugs, masturbation) could be one example. We actually have one saint who lived much of his adult life as an opium addict and was still addicted when he was martyred.
So the most the author could say here is that these are GRAVE sins with a potential to be mortal if the other elements are met. He cannot say, “This act is ALWAYS a mortal sin for everybody” which is what he seems to be saying when he does an article on “15 Mortal Sins”.

Again, as I said above, this article is hugely misleading and in my opinion does not belong on this forum because it is providing misinformation.
 
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I find this list puzzling more for what it doesn’t include. The good Father has a predictable focus on below-the-belt issues, and even gets down to “harming someone’s reputation” and even the “pushing their carts on Sunday” reference. Yet he is silent on things like spousal abuse, hatred, racial discrimination, drunk driving (drunkenness yes, but drunk driving is a specific danger to others), cheating in business. I cannot believe that people’s sense of sin - the premise of his list - is greater in these areas than in sexual matters. I wonder why Ouiji boards merit a mention while abusing your spouse (where in many cultures the Church has at a minimum “looked the other way “ in this) does not.
 
The article is entitled sins that Catholics are “frequently missing in their confession”. In other words, things that people do that they don’t think are sins, so they don’t mention them in confession.

I think it’s generally accepted in today’s society that spousal abuse, hatred, and racial discrimination are sinful. No one is going to say that beating your wife is not a sin. But a lot of people would say that using contraception is not a sin.

With respect to drunk driving, he did include drunkenness, and with respect to “cheating in business”, he did include denying workers a fair wage, which is a point in his favor because it’s a non-sexual sin that is often overlooked.
 
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I would argue that drunk driving is a specific sin apart from general drunkenness in terms of endangering others , and I acknowledged his mention of general drunkennes. . And as far as business, there’s much beyond the wage issue: cheating your customers, unfair business practices, false advertising, selling fake goods as the real thing. Finally I remain unconvinced that all cultures within the Church have the same sensitivity regarding how one treats one’s spouse. But why talk about that when one can point to Harry Potter?
 
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The article is entitled sins that Catholics are “frequently missing in their confession”. In other words, things that people do that they don’t think are sins, so they don’t mention them in confession.
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Because I’m sure lots of people have just forgotten that homosexual acts are a sin…
 
I like leggings and have several pairs, and wear above the knee dresses and skirts, and am not offended by the article 🤷‍♀️ people just conplain a lot just because Fr Nix is trad. Women make a lot of excuses when it comes to clothing and modesty, and turn snarky and passive aggressive when taught on this. Anything to defend their fashion or whatever. Looking good is more important than morality.
 
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That comment is grossly inappropriate and judgmental, as is the assumption that an article that propagates misinformation on topics like “mortal sin” is being objected to because “Fr. Nix is trad”.
 
The author considers the opinions of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Alphonsus de Ligouri to be part of the infallible teachings of the Church. That’s going a bit far I think, and doesn’t appreciate legitimate developments in moral theology since their time.

Furthermore the author uses Fatima as a guide to moral theology, when that is a special revelation and should be treated as such.
 
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Women make a lot of excuses when it comes to clothing and modesty, and turn snarky and passive aggressive when taught on this. Anything to defend their fashion or whatever. Looking good is more important than morality.
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I don’t think that’s a fair statement. I take offense at people imposing their standard of modesty on me, or worse, implying that I am somehow responsible to control how a man reacts to me. I take offense at the suggestion that anyone has the right to “teach me” about modesty using their standards.

If I am dressing in a way that my intention is clearly to call attention to my body, I agree that would be immodest. Wearing leggings and a sleeveless tunic top is not intended to call attention to my body. It is intended to give me a pretty, professional, comfortable outfit. If it is a distraction for men, then perhaps they need to refer back to their catechism are review the sections on human dignity so that they stop objectifying me as a sexual object.
 
And i also take offense at people saying i am judgmental. Judginf the judgmental is being judgmental. And like I said, I myself wear legging and dresses. Pride is a huge problem when it comes modesty. Unsubscribing.
 
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