Catholic apologist Dr. Karlo Broussard joins Cy Kellett to respond to a caller’s question about why Catholics believe in the distinction between mortal and venial sins—especially when those exact ...

Catholic apologist Karlo Broussard joins Cy Kellett to respond to Protestant author Ron Rhodes’ objections to the Catholic understanding of mortal and venial sin. Drawing on Scripture and Catholic ...

One tough challenge that Catholic shepherds face, Pope Benedict XVI said this past Lent, is that their flocks live in an age “in which the loss of the sense of sin is unfortunately becoming ...

According to the Catholic Church, there are seven mortal or cardinal sins: lust, gluttony, avarice (greed), sloth (laziness), anger, envy, and pride. Roman Catholic theology states that these are “the ...

For some reason I’ve been thinking about the impact of sin lately, and I find it’s not a bad topic of reflection, as long as you don’t let yourself dwell forlornly on your own past and already ...

Dead fish float on the Confuso River in Villa Hayes, Paraguay, in this 2017 file photo. Pope Francis announced in 2019 that the Catechism of the Catholic Church would be updated to include a ...

1 John 5:17 (RSV) explicitly differentiates a mortal sin from a less serious one: “All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal” (KJV: “not unto death”). Denying this would be ...