"New Sins"

[AClark]

Hello,
I believe that the Pope issued a proclamation in March which contained what many sources called “new sins”. I was confused by the phrase “new sins” because I thought a sin was an action, thought, or desire which draws those who commit it away from the Lord. I thought it would therefore be impossible for someone to make “new sins”.
Thanks for your time!

 

[Tantum_ergo]

No, what you saw was the media making its own little headlines. Please don’t try to hold the Pope responsible for the antics of reporters and other journalists trying to come up with sensationalist ways to get people to read their product.

 

[Pax_et_Caritas]

All sins are a violation of one of the 10 commandments, and that can’t change; however, there may be a new way in which to violate a commandment. For example in vitro fertilization could be a new way to violate the 5th commandment. Also, if a person had their tubes tied, this would be a way to violate the 5th commandment that did not exist in times past. Actually, those might be violations of the 6th commandment, not the 5th.

So, tt wouldn’t really be a “new sin”, but a new way to commit an old sin.

 

[OutinChgoburbs]

They aren’t “new” sins. They are the same old sins committed in new ways. It has always been wrong, for example, to harm one’s body, to be wasteful, and to not be chaste according to one’s state of life. It is the “how” that’s done that’s changed, such as Internet porn, polluting the environment on purpose and with disregard to the greater good, or texting on one’s cell while driving and possibly causing an accident that results in injuries or fatalities.

It wasn’t the Pope who issued a proclamation. It was Cardinal Girotti, who gave a seminar to priests:

foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336330,00.html

 

[Neil_Anthony]

Smoking is a new sin.

 

[fantrl]

Smoking is a new sin.

No it’s not.

 

[thistle]

No it’s not.

Excessive smoking is a grave sin. The newness part is because we know now about the damage it does to the health which we didn’t say, 50 years ago.

 

[palmas85]

Excessive smoking is a grave sin. The newness part is because we know now about the damage it does to the health which we didn’t say, 50 years ago.

Excessive being the key word.

 

[Like]

Excessive smoking is a grave sin. The newness part is because we know now about the damage it does to the health which we didn’t say, 50 years ago.

Excessive being the key word.

Please pray for me!!! I am an excessive smoker,NOT bragging, just having a very very hard time trying to quit! Very hard after 60 yrs. of the bad habit!

 

[tee_eff_em]

Excessive being the key word.

Or, as the Catechism puts it: *abuse *of tobacco (or food, or alcohol, or medicine, possibly others?) is an offense against the virtue of temperance.

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[AClark]

Thanks everyone! You all have been very helpful!

 

[Formosus]

Or, as the Catechism puts it: *abuse *of tobacco (or food, or alcohol, or medicine, possibly others?) is an offense against the virtue of temperance.

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This:thumbsup:

 

[Another_Mary]

Excessive smoking is a grave sin. The newness part is because we know now about the damage it does to the health which we didn’t say, 50 years ago.

While new information has come to our attention in the last 50 years about cigarette smoking, it’s been known to be bad for the health for a very long time.

From the late 1800s until at least when I was young (50 years ago) the term “coffin nails” was used for cigarettes.

Not really on topic but I couldn’t resist. I looked it up in my Historical Dictionary of American Slang. :tsktsk:

 

[Neil_Anthony]

Road rage is a new sin.