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A Brief History of African American Catholics
- "Slavery was a cruel social institution that corrupted the entire history of the United States.
It divided the nation. It divided religion. It touched every part of the Catholic Church. In 1839, Pope
Gregory XVI condemned slavery in the document Supremo Apostolatus Fastigio, but this made little impact.
Catholic slaveholders did not consider slavery immoral, since the Bible did not forbid it. Many priests
and religious sisters owned slaves. So did some bishops. Even some African American Catholics had slaves.
A black person might purchase a slave in order to be able to marry him or her and the spouse remained,
legally, a slave."
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Section 2.02 The Ten Commandmentsxii
- (a) I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me.
- Did I doubt or deny that God exists?
- Did I refuse to believe what God as revealed to us?
- Did I believe in fortune telling, horoscopes, dreams, the occult,
good-luck charms, tarot cards, palmistry, Ouija boards, séances,
reincarnation?
- Did I deny that I was Catholic?
- Did I leave the Catholic Faith?
- Did I give time to God each day in prayer?
- Did I love God with my whole heart?
- Did I despair of or presume on God's mercy?
- Did I have false gods in my life that I gave greater attention to
than God, like money, profession, drugs, TV, fame, pleasure, property,
video games, music videos, sports etc.?
- (b) You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
- Have I disrespected the holiness of God or of things or persons dedicated
to God?
- Have I lied under oath or failed to keep vows made in God's sight?
- Did I blaspheme or insult God?
- Did I take God's name carelessly or uselessly?
- Did I curse, or break an oath or vow?
- Did I get angry with God?
- (c) Remember to keep holy the LORD'S Day.
- Did I miss Mass Sunday or a Holy Day of Obligation through my own fault?
- Did I come to Mass on time? Leave early?
- Did I do work on Sunday that was not necessary?
- Did I set aside Sunday as a day of rest and a family day?
- Did I show reverence in the presence of Jesus in the Most Blessed
Sacrament?
- (d) Honor your father and your mother.
- Did I disobey or disrespect my parents or legitimate superiors?
- Did I neglect my duties to my husband, wife, children or parents?
- Did I neglect to give good religious example to my family?
- Did I fail to actively take an interest in the religious education and formation of my children?
- Did I fail to educate myself on the true teachings of the Church?
- Did I give scandal by what I said or did, especially to the young?
- Did I cause anyone to leave the faith?
- Did I cause tension and fights in my family?
- Did I care for my aged and infirm relatives?
- Did I give a full day's work for a full day's pay?
- Did I give a full day's work for a full day's pay?
- Did I give a fair wage to my employees?
- (e) You shall not kill.
- Did I kill or physically injure anyone?
- Did I have an abortion, or advise someone else to have an abortion? (One who procures
and abortion is automatically excommunicated, as is anyone who is involved in an abortion,
Canon 1398. The excommunication will be lifted in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.)
- Did I use or cause my spouse to use birth control pills (whether or not realizing that birth control pills do abort the fetus if and when conceived)?
- Did I attempt suicide?
- Did I take part in or approve of "mercy killing" (euthanasia)?
- Did I get angry, impatient, envious, unkind, proud, revengeful, jealous,
lazy, or hateful toward another?
- Did I give bad example by drug abuse, drinking alcohol to excess, fighting, and quarreling?
- Did I abuse my children?
- (f) You shall not commit adultery.
An examination usually includes the ninth commandment with the sixth.
Note: In the area of deliberate sexual sins listed below, all are mortal sins
if there is sufficient reflection and full consent of the will. "No fornicators, idolaters,
or adulterers, no sodomites,... will inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Cor 6:9-10) "Anyone who
looks lustfully at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his thoughts." (Mt 5:28)
- Did I willfully entertain impure thoughts or desires?
- Did I use impure or suggestive words? Tell impure stories? Listen to them?
- Did I deliberately look at impure TV, videos, plays, pictures or movies? Or deliberately read impure materials?
- Did I commit impure acts by myself (masturbation)?
- Did I commit impure acts with another - fornication (sex outside of marriage), adultery (sex with a married person)?
- Did I practice artificial birth control (by pills, device, withdrawal)?
- Did I marry or advise anyone to marry outside the Church?
- Did I avoid the occasions of impurity?
- Did I try to control my thoughts?
- Did I engage in homosexual activity?
- Did I respect all members of the opposite sex, or have I thought of other people as objects?
- Did I or my spouse have sterilization done?
- Did I abuse my marriage rights?
- (g) You shall not steal.
Examinations usually include the seventh commandment with the tenth.
- Did I steal, cheat, help or encourage others to steal or keep stolen goods?
- Have I made restitution for stolen goods?
- Did I fulfill my contracts; give or accept bribes; pay my bills; rashly gamble or speculate; deprive my family of the necessities of life?
- Did I waste time at work, school or at home?
- Did I envy other people's families or possessions?
- Did I make material possessions the purpose of my life?
- (h) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Did I lie?
- Did I deliberately deceive others, or injure others by lies?
- Did I commit perjury?
- Did I gossip or reveal others' faults or sins?
- Did I fail to keep secret what should be confidential?
- (i) You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
See questions for the sixth commandment
- (j) You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
See questions for the seventh commandment
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