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The traditional Catholic explanation of penitents who despite apparent good will yield to the same sins again and again is:
{ 1 } - Our fundamental option of the ultimate end pertains to the transcendental and not the categorical level of life.
{ 2 } - One can perform an act which is seriously immoral at the categorical level, while remaining committed to God at the transcendental level.
{ 3 } - These were sins of weakness which were committed without full freedom and are not necessarily mortal.
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The traditional Catholic explanation of penitents who despite apparent good will yield to the same sins again and again is:
{ 1 } - Our fundamental option of the ultimate end pertains to the transcendental and not the categorical level of life.
{ 2 } - One can perform an act which is seriously immoral at the categorical level, while remaining committed to God at the transcendental level.
{ 3 } - These were sins of weakness which were committed without full freedom and are not necessarily mortal.
This is Rahner's position. See p. 165.
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The traditional Catholic explanation of penitents who despite apparent good will yield to the same sins again and again is:
{ 1 } - Our fundamental option of the ultimate end pertains to the transcendental and not the categorical level of life.
{ 2 } - One can perform an act which is seriously immoral at the categorical level, while remaining committed to God at the transcendental level.
{ 3 } - These were sins of weakness which were committed without full freedom and are not necessarily mortal.
This is the position of some followers of Rahner. See p. 165.
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The traditional Catholic explanation of penitents who despite apparent good will yield to the same sins again and again is:
{ 1 } - Our fundamental option of the ultimate end pertains to the transcendental and not the categorical level of life.
{ 2 } - One can perform an act which is seriously immoral at the categorical level, while remaining committed to God at the transcendental level.
{ 3 } - These were sins of weakness which were committed without full freedom and are not necessarily mortal.
The Catholic position is that even if one commits an act that in itself expresses a serious and complete turning away from God, (direct abortion would be such an act) called mortal sin because it is the death of the love relationship to God, the person has not sinned mortally if he is not completely free in the act. Thus fear, confusion, etc. can diminish the culpability of the agent while not diminishing the fact that the act is objectively seriously evil.
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