000 :
01 Oct 2006

Introduction to the series, The Seven Deadlies Editor and Publisher of Catholica Australia, Brian Coyne, provides an overview of why we're running this series and an introduction to the writers who will be providing the commentaries. [more]

001 :
02 Oct 2006

Lust: Mindless Morality Play or Path to Consciousness? In a thought-provoking start to our series, Washington attorney and convert to Catholicism, Dawn Bowie, applies her mind to the challenges presented by Lust. Quoting one of her favourite spiritual writers she concludes: "relationships are not here to make you happy or fulfilled, they are here to make you conscious." [more]

001a :
02 Oct 2006

Lust: Hackenfurth has a confession to make David Hackenfurth, that sometime accomplice of Heresy Hunter, Fergal O'Dobbin, has a confession to make. To appreciate this animation you may need to be familiar with his earlier exploits on behalf of His Eminence and a couple of cross-dressing episodes which you can read here and here. [more]

002 :
03 Oct 2006

Gluttony: very much a relevant, contemporary issue Peregrinus in his usual, incisive way will give you much to think about is his exploration of the second of the Seven Deadlies. It's a twisting, turning commentary starting off by observing that the Seven Deadlies are not really sins but ends by concluding that gluttony is very much a relevant issue today. [more]

002a :
03 Oct 2006

Memo to Catholic Editors Ignatius McDrool is editor-in-chief of the recently renamed Catholic Prudence. He has turned out to be one of the fiercest critics of the liberalism, back-sliding and heresy of the Catholica Australia backsliders and cafeteria Catholics. Poor old Ignatius really has his knickers in a knot today over the promotion of the Seven Deadly Sins being carried on CathNews. [more]

003 :
04 Oct 2006

Greed: it is good (with reservations)! Ian Elmer argues that there has been an enormous shift in the official thinking of the Church as to how we approach moral law. He argues: "This new take on sin and greed is the result of both the insights of modern biblical scholarship and other significant philosophical shifts within the Church and wider society. Vatican II embraced anew the biblical themes of covenant, heart and conversion, and not law, as the primary moral concepts. Notions of responsibility and justice have displaced older concepts like obligation and law as the primary characteristics of the moral life." [more]

003a :
04 Oct 2006

Greed ... what greed, Dr Theopullous? When Western society is beginning some form of meltdown because of professions and business leaders who believe they are entitled to a greater share of a community's wealth than anybody else, Dr A. Theopullous, Dental Scientist, Veterinarian and Theologian, has a few thoughts about people paying their bills on time. [more]

003b :
04 Oct 2006

What about the virtues? More seriously, Cliff Baxter argues we need a counterpoint to the Seven Deadlies – through a concentration on Virtues. He says, for example, we need to 'get deadly' on human rights, and the activist Ciaron O'Reilly is a good role model. [more]

004 :
05 Oct 2006

Sloth: the easiest of the Seven Deadlies – it requires no effort, no thought, no intent! And now from another voice from around the other side of the world: Alan Simpson has done a lot of theological study in his time but has now retired to grow grass for cows, goats and sheep on a ranch in Texas. He argues in a delightfully whimsical commentary that sloth is probably the easiest of the Seven Deadlies. It requires no effort, no thought, no intent. Sloth happens. Can we do anything about it? Probably not. Besides, nobody cares if we sleep through the homily — as long as we don't snore! [more]

004a :
05 Oct 2006

Molly's take on the seven deadlies... Molly has turned out to be the most endearing character in Cliff's menagerie if the feedback we receive is anything to go by. She's a bit confused though by this present discussion on the Seven Deadlies and would like to direct attention back to what she describes as the Domestic Sins which she has written about at length in her Manual for Priests' Housekeepers. [more]

005 :
06 Oct 2006

Wrath: what a charlatan! Wendy is a new commentator for Catholica but what a debut she makes. She opens her commentary with these sentences: "What a charlatan anger is! What a cad, a bully, a tart, a scoundrel. Is there a greater chameleon among the Seven Deadlies?" and it just keeps powering on from there. [more]

005a :
06 Oct 2006

Father Farzenheim on the beauty and glory of Divine Wrath! Far from seeing Wrath as a Deadly Sin, Father Farzenheim has a very different take on Anger. He's a member of the Fathers of Divine Wrath and reminds us of the beauty and glory to be found in Divine Anger — Dies Irae in Latin. [more]

006 :
07 Oct 2006

Envy: viewed within an adult context... Tom Scott in this commentary seeks to explore how his own views on sin and the meaning of life have changed over the course of his lifetime. He uses the different ways in which we can view envy as an example of what are ultimately two incompatible views of what the spiritual objective of our lives is. [more]

006a :
07 Oct 2006

Sr Feralia's confession... It has been drawn to Sr Feralia's attention that her Order seems to suffer more casualities among the sisterhood than the coalition of the willing faces in Iraq. It's time to fess up and so she confesses today that her great sin is none of the seven deadlies but the sin of... [more]

007 :
08 Oct 2006

Pride: the place where ego is unbridled! Rosemary Canavan today journeys into that murky world where the ego becomes unbridled. Pride is the last of the Seven Deadly Sins but it is not the least. You'll learn that it heads the list of the Spiritual Sins. [more]

007a :
08 Oct 2006

The Seven Deadly Matches... Biffin O'Toole thinks all this discussion about the Seven Deadly Sins is a bit sissy and sus. He'd far prefer discussion about the Seven Deadly Matches his Catholica Saints U18 Football team have been victors in. [more]

Shown here are the lead posts in strings related to this series:
Lust - JohnB, 02.10.2006, 10:00 (Main Forum)
Re Editor's Roundup - Cliff Baxter, 03.10.2006, 14:54 (Main Forum)
Lust and Gluttony when does it become sinful? - Angela, 03.10.2006, 21:04 (Main Forum)
Thanks Ian for the Greed piece - Cliff Baxter, 04.10.2006, 10:13 (Main Forum)
Gilligan's Island and the Seven Deadly Sins - Ian Elmer, 06.10.2006, 10:41 (Main Forum)
Congratulations Wendy - Cliff Baxter, 06.10.2006, 11:10 (Main Forum)