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A Guide to Conscience
For the Sacrament of Confession
by Father Richard J. Rego, S.T.L.
This is the best up-to-date preparation for confession and examination of conscience that we have seen. Father Rego has done a thorough study of the teachings of the Church, which every Catholic must believe are also the teachings of Christ, on what is and is not sinful. Besides defining the conditions for when a sin is venial or mortal, Father explains the integral elements for a worthy confession.
The examination of conscience includes:
- sins against God and the Catholic Faith
- sins against the Holy Name
- sins of sacrilege
- sins against others and self
- sins of disobedience
- sins against human life including abortion, sterilization, contraception, artificial insemination, euthanasia and willful self-destruction
- sins of racism
- sins against chastity
- sins of scandal, gambling, etc.
This work also contains beautiful and inspiring words on the benefit of Confession. Father Rego quotes Bishop Austin Vaughan of New York who says that part of the reason for a decline in the reception of the Sacrament of Confession is the presumption that everyone or almost everyone is going to Heaven, that there's no danger in losing your soul, there's no Hell, and consequently, no urgent need to go to confession. A most useful work!
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