capital sin
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In its capricious flows and floods, the river sometimes wandered far from anything like a deep-cut bed, and — its capital sin — chewed up valuable property and land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
"Why," he asked in one sermon, "should we attribute to God the capital sin of Anger?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence the long train of crimes led by one capital sin towards the goal of its satisfaction, and hence the havoc wrought by its untrammeled working in a human soul.
From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton
Therefore sloth is not rightly accounted a capital sin.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Gluttony, 269; sin opposed to abstemiousness, 2470 b; ways of committing gluttony, 2471; sinfulness of gluttony, 2472 a; gluttony as capital sin, 2473 11.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
