“Hell is not some arbitrary punishment that God sticks on us like postage stamps…”

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Mark Shea with a much needed primer on what Catholicism does (and does not) teach about salvation: Sometime back, the media got itself all in a tizzy about “the Vatican” supposedly issuing “seven new deadly sins”.  As one particularly egregious headline put it “Recycle or go to hell, warns Vatican”. Given this view of the Faith, discussions in the press then break down into inane prattle about mortal and venial sin.  Here, for instance, is Slate explaining it all for you: What kinds of sins aren’t deadly? The venial ones. The Catholic Church divides sinful behavior into two categories: mortal and venial. (The

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