Hmmm, a good example. If you had not checked your bill - and many people do not - and if I hadn’t either, (my bill is not sent to me, I have to actively look it up) then we would have been none the wiser as to whether the charge had been taken or not.
You made the effort to fix it. After that it is indeed out of your hands.
That’s my thought, once they made the effort… it is in the business’ hands…
You do not have to worry about a sin being committed then.Oh well, after all that - they ‘caught’ me!
The fees were taken, 6 weeks later - so no need to email them.
That doesn’t really make any sense.People need to stop struggling with these things!
Go forth and glorify God, not sit and lament if the penny you found on the street required you to put in a bit more effort to find the owner
Go do real stuff and you won’t have brain time for this!
It makes perfect sense. Half of the concerns of Catholics seem to be nonsensical situations like these.That doesn’t really make any sense.
Doing ‘real stuff’, whatever that is, does not negate querying a particular circumstance that may or may not be a sin.
A priest, suggesting emailing them, however now there is no need to!
Still makes no sense.It makes perfect sense. Half of the concerns of Catholics seem to be nonsensical situations like these.
This has a twofold issue:
This if being discussed philosophically and in general, okay.
- Anyone not a catholic that hears this is what being catholic is about will think being carholic is a stupid and horrible idea.
- Instead of focusing energy on anything useful… there is this. What is this?? Useless waste of energy.
But most are actually concerned
Not knowing what is actual church teaching vs the whims of those I deem “out there” was a great deterrent to my being a practicing anything.Still makes no sense.
Anyone who’s not Catholic, would at least wonder as to why the question was asked. A decade or so back, for me, getting access to films, with no payment being taken, would have been a celebrated freebie - as it would have been the company’s fault, and I was a ‘practicing’ Catholic then.
The more one comes to the faith the more aware they are of ‘sin’, and sometimes it can be a grey area. If I had ventured upon this thread then (or as a non-Catholic) it would have made me ‘wonder’ if nothing else - but no doubt would have been water of a duck’s back and I would not have taken it under my notice.
Focusing on something useful, like what? Everything’s relative.
This takes up no time, at all, but if anyone has a legitimate worry about a sinful issue, it’s their free choice to ask.
All It takes is a few minutes out of their day.
The query was NOT an ‘insane whim’ that is your perception, it was to ask if what had occurred was a sin, nothing more or less. A decade ago, as a practicing Catholic/Christian, it would not have even have been on my radar as a sin.
Yet even priests and such wanr the pitfalls of scruples.The query was NOT an ‘insane whim’ that is your perception, it was to ask if what had occurred was a sin, nothing more or less. A decade ago, as a practicing Catholic/Christian, it would not have even have been on my radar as a sin.
As another poster pointed out it is ‘conscience’ pricking, as it was in my case - but no way would my conscience have been pricked, years ago, I’d have thought I’d got ‘lucky’ through faulty software.
The post relates mostly to practicing the Catholic faith through more regular confession, i.e. the more you attend the more you are aware of sin and/or your conscience is pricked more often.
What exactly do Popes/Bishops/Priests/Saints/and some laypeople confess to, every week at confession- needless to say, not anything to do with this particular query - but most likely what these lapsed ‘Christians’ would also regard as ‘everything’ is a sin.
Falls under the category of ‘Tough’.
Completely misses the point of the OP, and the query asked.