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Clear all filtersBaltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 321
A person sins against faith: 1st, by not trying to know what God has taught; 2d, by refusing to believe all that God has taught; 3d, by neglecting to profess his belief in what God has taught.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 327
The sins against hope are presumption and despair.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 30, question 330
We sin against the love of God by all sin, but particularly by mortal sin.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 32, question 351
Not to fulfill our vows is a sin, mortal or venial, according to the nature of the vow and the intention we had in making it.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 33, question 362
We are commanded by the fourth Commandment to honor, love, and obey our parents in all that is not sin.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 34, question 385
Impure thoughts and desires are always sins, unless they displease us and we try to banish them.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 35, question 390
It is a mortal sin not to hear Mass on a Sunday or a holyday of obligation, unless we are excused for a serious reason. They also commit a mortal sin who, having others under their charge, hinder them from hearing Mass, without a sufficient reason.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 35, question 395
The Church commands us to fast and abstain, in order that we may mortify our passions and satisfy for our sins.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 36, question 397
By the command of confessing at least once a year is meant that we are obliged, under pain of mortal sin, to go to confession within the year.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 36, question 399
Children should go to Confession when they are old enough to commit sin, which is commonly about the age of seven years.Read the source passage →
Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 36, question 400
He who neglects to receive Communion during the Easter time commits a mortal sin.Read the source passage →
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Baltimore Catechism · Lesson 37, question 414
Purgatory is a state in which those suffer for a time who die guilty of venial sins, or without having satisfied for the punishment due to their sins.Read the source passage →
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