Should Sin Be Illegal?

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Support the channel by visiting https://brianholdsworth.ca Pope Francis has accomplished something that nobody else in the Church seems capable of – he brought together the liberal and traditional Catholics together a show of unity. In a recent interview he said something that all the various factions could agree – was wrong and contrary to Church teaching – and they all raised their voices in united protest together. And Francis even admitted, at least to one of the factions that he meant to say something different. And I can sympathize with the experience of saying something imprecisely because of the spontaneity of verbal communication. Specifically, he was addressing a question about whether certain behaviours of a sexual nature should be illegal or not and what he said was that they were sinful but not criminal. And while his particular answer missed the mark and he seemed to concede that after the fact by issuing a correction, it does raise an interesting question. How do we determine when something isn’t just immoral, but should also be illegal? Obviously you have to start by determining if something is immoral and this is a question of objective truth independent of our preferences and legal systems. In Christian terms, a thing either is a sin or is not, based on the objective, natural, moral law. Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: http://pauljernberg.com Podcast Version: https://brianholdsworth.libsyn.com/

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• Repentance