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101 Sins and Errors of the Catholic Church

 

 

Categories and Types of Error


I have categorized 101 sins and errors so as to present them in a logical order.
I have separated the errors of Catholicism into four general categories. The first two categories include errors that tend to minimize the nature and work of God. The second two categories include errors that tend to maximize the nature and worth of Man. The categories are:

 

1)      Errors that leave unfinished what God has finished,

2)      Errors that make physical that which is spiritual,

3)      Errors that make mediate that which is immediate, and

4)      Errors that make meritorious that which is gracious.

 

Perhaps a word concerning category 3 is in order. A Catholic relative, in a moment of honesty, shared a spiritual insight with me. She told me, “You know, I feel I have a good relationship with God the Father, and understand the Holy Spirit, but I just don’t feel close to Jesus.” That evening, while pondering what she said, it occurred to me that her lack of intimacy with Jesus was the natural outflow of a religious system that places multiple mediators between the Catholic and Jesus. Whereas the Bible says that there is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, Catholicism places six mediators in between. These “six degrees of separation” (the Sacraments, Mary, the Pope, the Priest, the Saints, and the Church) naturally leads to a lack of intimacy with the Savior.

 

Now, after breaking the errors into the four categories, I have further delineated them according to three types or levels of sin:

 

1)      “Sins of being” (root sins),

2)      “Sins of having” (branch sins), and

3)      “Sins of doing” (fruit sins).

 

The “sins of being,” or ontological errors, are the causes of the “sins of having.” The “sins of doing,” in turn, are the conducts which flow from the sins of being and having.

 

Here is an example: The Catholic Church teaches that the Word of God includes not only the Scriptures, but also a second body of truth which is not written. This truth has been “passed down” through an unbroken line of Apostolic Successors. The Catholic Church calls this “Tradition.” God’s Word is unfinished, since the ongoing revelation known as Tradition exists as part of God’s Word.  The root error of Tradition leads to the (unbiblical) tradition of having a celibate priesthood. Then this “offshoot” from the root of Tradition (mandatory celibacy) in turn leads to sins of conduct. The young men who are required to make a vow to forever remain celibate may not have the god-given gift of celibacy. Not surprisingly, this has led to all forms of sexual dysfunction in the priesthood, such as homosexuality and pedophilia.

The existence of Tradition leads to the having of celibacy which leads to the doing of homosexual sins such as pedophilia.

 

 

1. Sins/Errors that leave unfinished what God has finished:

A. Root Sins:

  1) Tradition 
  2) Sacrifice of the Mass 

  3) Purgatory

B. Branch Sins:

  4) 
Abstaining from meat
  5) All Souls Day/Prayers for the dead
  6) Mandatory celibacy of priests
  7) Assurance is anathema
  8) Holy Days of Obligation
  9) Sacramentals
 10) Indulgences
 11) Infusion of graces
 12) Apostolic Succession

C. Fruit Sins:

 13) Holy Door & Jubilees
 14) Holy water blessing
 15) Homosexual priests
 16) Sex abuse scandals
 17) Mass Cards

 18) Pilgrimmages
 19) Indults

2. Sins/Errors that make physical that which is spiritual:

A. Root Sins:

 20) Pope is the Head of the Church

 21) Transubstantiation: a wafer is the body of Christ
 22) Roman Catholicism is the One Church

B. Branch Sins:

 23) Non-Separation of Church and State

 24) Monstrances
 25) Nuncios

 26) Papal titles
 27) Concordats
 28) Deuterocanonical books
 29) Interdicts
 30) Magisterium
 31) Papal infallibility

C. Fruit Sins:

 32) ARCIC
 33) Beziers
 34) Bloody Mary/English Martyrs
 35) Papal attire
 36) Earthly riches
 37) Donation of Constantine
 38) ECT
 39) Vatican Ratline
 40) 
False Decretals
 41) Galileo
 42) Vatican Bank/Peter's Pence
 43) JDDJ
 44) Wycliffe's bones
 45) St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
 46) Ustashi/Cardinal Stepinac
 47) Spelly's War
 48) Syncretism

 49) Jan Hus martyred
 50) Inquisitions
 51) Feast of Corpus Christi

3. Sins/Errors of Making Mediate the Immediate:

A. Root Sins:

 52) Sacraments are the means to heaven (ex opere operata)

 53) Mary is Co-Mediatrix
 54) Pope is the "Pontiff"
 55) Priest is advocate
 56) Saints are intercessors
 57) No salvation outside the RCC

B. Branch Sins:

 58) Annulments
 59) Anathemas
 60) Praying to the Saints
 61) Index of Forbidden Books
 62) 
Baptismal regeneration
 63) Mortal & venial sin
 64) Patron Saints
 65) Confession to a priest
 66) Praying to Mary, Queen of Heaven

C. Fruit Sins:

 67) Anti-Semitism

 68) Apparitions of Mary
 69) Fate of ex-Catholics
 70) 
Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen)
 71) Jesuits
 72) Knights of Malta

 73) Loreto
 74) Miraculous Medals
 75) Novenas/First Fridays
 76) Rosary

 77) Sabbatine Privilege and the wearing of the scapular
 78) Prayers to St. Jude
 79) Viaticum
 80) Bad Popes
 81) Stations of the Cross
 82) Pope Pius IX beatified

4. Sins/Errors that make meritorious the gracious

A. Root Sins:

 83) Merit (inherent) is necessary for salvation
 84) 
Mary is assumed to heaven
 85) Martyrdom is salvific (Baptism by blood)
 86) 
Sincerity is salvific (Baptism by desire)
 87) Mary is ever virgin
 88) 
Mary is immaculately conceived

B. Branch Sins:

 89) 
Consecration/Altar Stones
 90) Ash Wednesday/Lent
 91) Confirmation
 92) Penance
 93) Vows
 94) Treasury of Merit/Supererogation
 
C. Fruit Sins:

 95) 
Assisi/World Day of Prayer
 96) Rhythm method
 97) Convents/Monasteries
 98) Mardi Gras & Carnivale
 99) Opus Dei
100) Veneration of relics
101) Stigmatics