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acedia | Spiritual sloth or indifference that can extend as far as the refusal of the joy that God gives. |
adoration | Worship in which we acknowledge and respond to the revelation of the glory and power of God. |
apostasy | The total repudiation of the Christian faith. |
atheism | The refusal to accepts God's existence. |
charity | The theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his sake, and love our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God. |
despair | The loss of trust in God because of doubt in his fidelity or interest in each person. |
divination | The prediction of the future or revelation of the unknown through so-called paranormal means. |
faith | The theological virtue by which we believe in all that God has said and revealed to us and that the Church proposes for our belief. |
hatred of God | the sin of opposing the love of God, denying his goodness, and cursing him as the one who forbids sin and inflicts punishment. |
heresy | The obstinate denial by a baptized person of some truth that must be believed with divine faith. |
hope | The theological virtue by which we desire that kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. |
idolatry | The religious worship of imaginary gods, the devil or other created things, such as forces of nature, the stars, or the cosmos, animals, ets. |
indifference | The refusal of reflect on the prior goodness and power of the divine charity. |
ingratitude | The refusal to acknowledge divine charity or return God's love. |
involuntary doubt | The sin against faith that hesitates in believing or overcoming difficulties connected with the Faith and fails to attempt to dispel them. |
lukewarmness | The failure or hesitation in responding to divine love. |
magic | The desire to know and control the occult forces that supposedly influence human life. |
schism | The refusal to submit to the pope or be united with the Church subject to him. |
superstition | Beliefs or practices that render false worship to God or attribute supernatural power to objects or rituals. |
virtue of religion | This is a requirement of Man's worship of God |
faith without proof | The acceptance of truths revealed by God without proof |
conversion of the whole world | I not only contemplated by Christians |
sins against faith | Atheism, heresy, apostasy, and schism |
virtue of religion | requires us to worship and believe in God |
repudiation of the faith | Heresy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith. |
reason | Faith does not contradict reason. |
atheism | is the denial of God's existence |
simony | buying or selling spiritual powers or gifts |
Christians | Receive God's truth, safeguard and communicate the faith |
sins against hope | presumption, acedia, and despair |
faith is cultivated | By the sacraments, prayer, spiritual direction and spiritual reading |
Penance | The gift of God that makes the practice of theological virtues possible |
faith | the theological virtue that enables us to believe all that God has revealed. |
moral theology | uses practical judgments, directs human acts toward God and uses revelation |
ingratitude | does not acknowledge divine charity, refuses the joy of God, shows disrespect for sacred persons, places or things |
virtue of religion | requires that we honor and worship God. |