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- 2. bribery.
- 5. the virtue that regulates our attraction to pleasure and helps us use God’s created goods in a balanced way.
- 6. outright denial by a baptized person of some essential truth about God and faith that we must believe.
- 7. a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation (Merriam-Webster)
- 9. direct or active euthanasia is any “action or omission which of itself and by intention causes death, with the purpose of eliminating all suffering” (Gospel of Life, 65). Direct euthanasia is always wrong despite one’s good intentions.
- 13. doubt The decision to ignore or a refusal to believe what God has revealed or what the Church teaches
- 14. Tempers our desire for food and other pleasure-producing substances
- 15. lack of belief or strong disbelief in the existence of a god or gods. (Merriam-Webster)
- 18. marked by or containing untrue statements (Merriam-Webster)
- 19. Revealing a person’s faults and failings to someone who did not previously know about them and who had no need or right to know about them. A lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty (Merriam-Webster)
- 22. hateful,defiant, reproachful thoughts, words, or acts against God, Jesus, His Church, the saints, or holy things.
- 24. lying about others so people will make false judgements about them.
- 25. Worship of false gods.
- 26. refusal to submit to the pope’s authority to remain in union with members of the Catholic Church.
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- 1. attempts to unveil what God wants hidden by calling up demonic powers, consulting horoscopes; the stars, or mediums; palm reading, etc.
- 3. the intentional assistance of any dying or suffering person in taking his or her own life.
- 4. an unlawful taking of someone else property (Merriam-Webster)
- 8. painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage (Merriam-Webster)
- 10. the deliberate killing of unborn human life by means of medical or surgical procedures. Direct abortion is seriously wrong because it is an unjustified attack on human life.
- 11. the total rejection of Jesus Christ (and the Christian faith) by a baptized Christian.
- 12. pleasing others so they can carry out your wishes.
- 16. the buying and selling of spiritual goods.
- 17. Profane or unworthy treatment of the sacraments, other liturgical actions, and persons, places, and things consecrated to God.
- 20. A mental disposition that either neglects revealed truth or willfully refuses to assent to it.
- 21. “the view that any ultimate reality (such as a deity) is unknown and probably unknowable. A philosophical or religious position characterized by uncertainty about the existence of a god or any gods.” (Merriam-Webster)
- 23. False witness under oath. The voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing (Merriam-Webster)