Word: venial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Roman Catholic, educated in Catholic schools and a Catholic college, and at no time have I ever been advised that kissing is either a venial or mortal sin. I think your article, "The Venial Kiss" [Oct. 8], is utterly ridiculous...
...Mortal sin condemns the unshriven sinner to hell, venial sin "merits only temporal punishment" and, unless expiated on earth, is paid for only by the pains of purgatory...
...kiss that started the discussion was confessed to his priest by a 15-year-old Italian village boy. Mortal sin, said the priest. The anguished youth went to a second confessor, who told him he had committed only a venial one. Back went the boy to the first priest, who in turn wrote to La Palestra del Clero for guidance...
...with intent to fornicate, they commit mortal sin, whether or not fornication follows. But if there is no such intention, if the kiss is only "a carnal delight limited to the act of kissing . . . if further consequences are neither indulged in nor thought of, the sin is only a venial...
Kissing that begins venial may turn mortal, warned La Palestra. "The spiritual direction of young adolescents," it summed up, "is delicate and difficult...