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Betrayal of the true religion
I enjoy listening to your podcasts and started attending the Latin Mass. I've got a situation where both my daughters have left the Church. My eldest daughter is practicing a homosexual lifestyle after having two girls in a heterosexual...Read more
SATAN MUST ASK GOD PERMISSION
I heard you speak in West Des Moines, Iowa. I was hoping you could clarify two things for me?
You mentioned that God has to grant permission to Satan to do things? How can that be? Why would...Read more
Blinded by Satan
Fr Frank Pavone, you are mixing apples and oranges and blinded by the abortion issue which is valid. As a Catholic and politically independent, I emphatically support pro-life, but to categorically demonize President Biden and the whole Democratic Party,...Read more
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Psychiatry and Sin
So general has the denial of sin been, that it has not been theologians who have resurrected the idea, but psychiatrists. Karl Menninger, of the Menninger Psychiatric Institute of Kansas, has published a book entitled 'What Ever Became of Sin.' He shows the slow devolution of the concept of sin. According to him, moralists stopped preaching about sin because everything was love; then the jurists picked the theme, and sin under law became a crime. Then the psychiatrists took it up from the legalists, and sin then became a symptom or a complex. Some rather tragic effects have resulted from this denial of sin. First of all, we have many complexes that are produced by sin, and we are blind to the true cause, which is guilt.