Episode Details

Eoin and Fr. Chris work through several YouCat questions on sin and mercy. They unpack sin as hamartia — missing the mark — and why every sin is ultimately directed against God even when it harms others, illustrated by Dorothy Day bathing the dying and Paul’s road to Damascus encounter. A lively exchange follows on whether sin has an intelligence of its own (the devil does, Fr. Chris clarifies), the difference between sin and vice, and Aquinas’s point that repeated sin forms habits that make wrongdoing feel neutral.

The capital vices get a frank modern audit: pride has its parade, avarice its corporate cheerleaders, gluttony its GLP-1 inhibitors and the extraordinary phenomenon of the weight-loss-drug divorce. Acedia closes the list — spiritual boredom as the root of a culture too distracted to sit quietly and think. The episode ends warmly on mercy: God’s is greater than his justice, as the thief on the cross proves.

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