Plunging the poor into destitution through usury is serious sin.
For the Morsi I know, any cooperation with Israel is a serious sin, a crime".
St Paul saw "party-spirit" as a serious sin (2 Cor 12 20).
If you commit a serious sin and die without repenting, you go to hell".
In a statement, the archdiocese said sexual abuse was "a serious sin".
In 2007, Mr. Vitter admitted an unspecified "serious sin" after his telephone number appeared in the records of a Washington prostitution ring.
Mr. Melancon's campaign has even started a Web site called serioussins.com, a reference to Mr. Vitter's admission of "a very serious sin" after the prostitution scandal.
Beyond that, however, Friedman in his role as political advocate committed a serious sin; he consistently misrepresented his own economic work.
"I addressed it very directly in 2007 and said it was a very serious sin and apologized very directly," he said in the interview.
Some extremists felt the only way for someone who committed a serious sin, like adultery, to return to the church would be through a second baptism.
Still, given that it defines homosexual behavior as a "serious sin" and remains vociferously opposed to marriage equality it's difficult to imagine the church's turning a complete about-face on homosexuality.
