Catholicism: The Glory of God and the Horror of Sin, by Dr. Jeff Mirus 

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Jan 26, 2024

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

In The best books Catholic Culture staff read in 2023, I recommended Scott Hahn’s and Brandon McGinley’s book Catholics in Exile. Today I remembered that on page 81 the authors included a powerful quotation from St. John Henry Newman on the Catholic view of the seriousness of sin:

[The Catholic Church] holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one willful untruth [, though it harmed no one,] or steal one poor farthing without excuse. …

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