cardinal sin

My understanding was that according to most Christian beliefs, being trans or gay was a sin, cut and dry.

But the greatest sin of all for Francis is perhaps that of careerism, chiding those who honor people rather than God.

“Light trumps darkness, hope beats despair, grace wins over sin, love defeats hate, life conquers death,” the cardinal said.

He quotes an unnamed cardinal saying that the conclave voters knew the charges were false.

Elisabetta Piqué, who knew Bergoglio well as a cardinal, writes in the present tense as if to convey real time passing.

Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.

But if God made man, then God is responsible for all man's acts and thoughts, and therefore man cannot sin against God.

He thrust the Cardinal's mantle into it, and stood over the smouldering cloth, till the whole was consumed to ashes.

Because if that was to atone for man's sin, it was needless, as God could have forgiven man without Himself suffering.

Their sin began on Holy Thursday, with so little secrecy and so bad an example, that the affair was beginning to leak out.