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- From: mcbary@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Martin Barry)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.catholic
- Subject: Re: Sins against the Spirit
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.115811.6802@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:58:11 GMT
- References: <9301191336.AA27023@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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- Someone asked a while back:
- >>Could someone please explain what is meant by the expression "a sin
- >>against the (Holy) Spirit"? Because we profess the Holy Spirit to be
- >>"Dominum et Vivificantem," does that mean that abortion is a sin against
- >>the Holy Spirit?
-
- "326. Which are the six sins against the Holy Spirit?
- The six sins against the Holy Spirit are:
- 1. Presumption
- 2. Despair
- 3. Resisting the known truth
- 4. Envy of another's spiritual good
- 5. Obstinacy in sin
- 6. Final impenitence"
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- [_A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, approved by the archbishops and bishops
- of England and Wales, and directed to be used in all their dioceses_,
- London: Catholic Truth Society, 1889]
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- Martin Barry.
-