if St. Alphonsus' Liguori said that those who go to Hell, there must be at least the sixth commandment, and some even commit more serious sins, but all the damned have sinned against purity.
opinion is reliable, because the saint is great theologian and Doctor of the Church morale. It 'something that is found easily: the world leads us to lose the virtue of purity. The Devil In fact, though naught carnal sin second St. Catherine, however, knows that man, fragile and weak, easily fall into this temptation. And therefore, leads man to sin against the sixth commandment. Then, to have ensured the success, it also leads to the loss of faith, the sinner so hard to repent of his sin.
If there is no God to ask forgiveness, who can save us from hell?
These are realities of which I believe should be aware. Locked in our libraries, we'd have to play just wondering if the institution is absolutely or relative, or a grace that is effective for physical premozione. But the reality is more prosaic.
In one of his most beautiful books, "Dogma and Preaching", then a young theologian, Ratzinger said that Joseoh preaching the dogma must always be full. You can not just preach the law of God and remember its just trial without also remember that God is a merciful Father who wants only the good of his creatures and waiting with open arms that come back to him, if they sin. On the other hand, if you only preach mercy, without remembering the demands of justice, mercy that appear empty.
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