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Are all sins equally offensive to God?
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Why don't Christian Scientists allow doctors to treat them?
Does the Catholic Church have a stand was on plastic surgery?
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Is there any biblical evidence for the Catholic doctrine of original sin?
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What's the difference between contrition and attrition?
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Does God send wars as a punishment for sin?
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Isn't conscience what determines right from wrong?
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When it comes to chastity, where should an engaged couple draw the line ?
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Does Humanae Vitae state that birth control is only forbidden for married couples?
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Hasn't the Church destroyed an entire continent by preaching against condoms for protection from AIDS?
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"In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do [in the way of penance]."

~ Anglo-Saxon "Ecclesiastical Institutes" translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000; explaining the English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) wherein the religious idea is uppermost; but before long, human nature allowed itself some exceptional licence.