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The Catholic Church is the longest-enduring institution in the world. Beginning with the first Christians and continuing in our present day, the Church has been planted in every nation on earth. The Catholic Church claims Jesus Christ himself as her founder, and in spite of heresy from within and hostility from without, she remains in the twenty-first century the steadfast guardian of belief in...

Eight basic sins were commonly recognized, forerunners of the classic list of the seven “deadly sins” that kill grace in the soul—gluttony, luxury (love of pleasure), love of money (covetousness, envy), sadness, anger, acedia, vainglory, and pride. Sadness was perhaps akin to the modern phenomenon of depression and was considered sinful because it involved an element of despair, while acedia was a jaded world-weariness or boredom. Vainglory and pride were distinguished in that the former
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