According to Catholicism, is it a sin to participate in gambling such as State Lottery?
score:4
Is gambling always a sin according to Catholicism?
The short answer is no.
In its moral aspect, although gambling usually has a bad meaning, yet we may apply to it what was said about betting. On certain conditions, and apart from excess or scandal, it is not sinful to stake money on the issue of a game of chance any more than it is sinful to insure one's property against risk, or deal in futures on the produce market. - Catholic Encyclopedia
There is at least one patron saints of gambling: St. Cajetan.
St. Cajetan (known as St. Cayetano in Spanish-speaking countries) is the Patron Saint of Gamblers. Cajetan, born in 1480, was a lawyer and the son of a wealthy family. Driven by a desire to reform the Church, he traveled to Rome, became a priest, and founded a religious order. He used his family fortune to create hospitals that served both the physical and moral needs of the poor. He also established pawn shops and credit unions to provide loans to the poor.
Cajetan's connection to gambling is obscure. Popular lore says the people would ask him for a favor, and bet him a rosary that he couldn't come through. Since he always came through, he was able to get people to pray more. Based on what I know of saints, this feels like a pious retrofitting of a reason to a patronage, and it just doesn't sound likely.
It's more probable that his loans helped people get out from under the predatory interest rates of loan sharks, and many of the these loans were the result of gambling debts. Then, as now, a compulsive gambler could destroy his family, so it seems more likely that Cajetan probably helped problem gamblers get back on the right path both financially and morally. - Who Is The Patron Saint of Gaming?
Upvote:2
I do not believe Catholics believe that gambling is necessarily sinful. Some monastic orders might outlaw the practice for spiritual reasons. We should be looking to become more Christ like, and not necessarily looking to accumulate worldly goods. So a preoccupation with gambling or financial gain may be sinful, but a specific act of occasional gambling is probably not.
As for an "eternity in hell", Catholics believe any sin, even mortal sin like murder, are forgiven if the person is repentant.
The Catholic Encyclopedia does have an interesting entry on gambling, see http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06375b.htm
More post
- 📝 Didn't Jesus return to Earth after the resurrection when he appeared to Paul?
- 📝 Where in the Bible does it say we have a sin nature?
- 📝 How can Satan/the Devil be in a Jewish story (the "Book of Job")?
- 📝 How do those who believe the Son is not Almighty God interpret Revelation 2:23?
- 📝 What is the Roman Catholic view on using the term 'orthodox', particularly in regard to Eastern Orthodoxy?
- 📝 What did Paul believe about 1 Corinthians 10:4 with regards to the teaching about bread from heaven, spiritual food?
- 📝 What is the best response to give when someone asks if you think that your religion is the only true one
- 📝 Who gets to decide who is a prophet and who is not?
- 📝 What are the "evangelical counsels"?
- 📝 What is the biblical support for the moral-civil-ceremonial distinction of Old Testament laws?
- 📝 What is the way of Cain, the error of Balaam and the gainsaying of Core (Korah)?
- 📝 What's the difference between the Gospel and the Bible?
- 📝 Why do people call Mary Magdalene the "Black Madonna"?
- 📝 What was the earliest reference to the 3 States of the Church?
- 📝 What is the basis of the teaching that souls in purgatory can intercede for the living?
- 📝 Why did heaven need to be purified by Christ's blood?
- 📝 Where do Saints go after we return with Jesus (Pentecostal perspective)
- 📝 Should we forgive everything?
- 📝 What is the basis for baptism being the new circumcision?
- 📝 Dying for Christ
- 📝 Did God forgive sins based on Jesus' future sacrifice?
- 📝 Should a Christian (Protestant) question their pastor or teacher?
- 📝 Fallen Angels worshiped in ancient civilizations?
- 📝 Does Christianity give a reason for life experiences, such as in Hinduism?
- 📝 Trinity, is the son of GOD, GOD himself/itself?
- 📝 Why does no one know what Jesus looks like?
- 📝 According to Trinitarians, what is the Biblical basis that some doctrine is a mystery?
- 📝 Does the Lumen Gentium dogmatic constitution say that non-Catholic Christians cannot be saved?
- 📝 What specifically changed about Catholic seminaries in the 20th Century?
- 📝 Was Jesus two separate individuals in one body?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 According to Catholicism, is it a sin to participate in gambling such as State Lottery?
- 📝 According to Catholicism what is meant by living in a state of obstinate sin?
- 📝 According to the Bible, does sin give Satan 'Legal Access' to your life in any sense?
- 📝 According to a ‘forgiveness in Christ alone’ framework how did ‘sin offerings’ make atonement for sin under the Mosaic Law?
- 📝 According to LDS, if the Fall was a positive thing why would God condemn sin in the flesh?
- 📝 According to Roman Catholicism, is it a sin to vote for pro-choice politicians?
- 📝 According to Catholicism can you be saved without being baptised?
- 📝 According to Eastern Orthodoxy why did we inherit the sin of Adam and Eve?
- 📝 According to Mormons, how did the unclean spirits sin by "not keeping the first estate"?
- 📝 According to Catholicism and/or Eastern Othodox, if we have Guardian Angels do we also have an assigned Demons?
- 📝 According to Catholicism how does a person discriminate between hearing the true word of God versus a hallucination or a demon?
- 📝 According to the Bible, is it a sin to marry a non-virgin?
- 📝 According to Catholicism, is marrying a divorced woman a sin of continual adultery?
- 📝 According to Catholicism what happens after Death on the General Judgment Day?
- 📝 According to Catholicism and Revelation are we going to be able to eat meat in Heaven or the Garden of Eden?
- 📝 According to Catholicism which parts of the Bible actually happened historically?
- 📝 According to Roman Catholicism, at what point does original sin affect the human soul?
- 📝 According to Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy are there any doctrinal barriers to Christians sharing places of worship with non-Christians?
- 📝 According to the Catholic Church, if one, faced with the threat of being burned alive, denied Christ, would his sin be mortal?
- 📝 According to Catholicism what does it mean for every relationship in heaven to be perfect and fulfilling?
- 📝 According to the RCC, is supporting abortion the same sin as having an abortion?
- 📝 According to Calvinism, if Catholicism might lead to salvation, why to remain a Calvinist? (Henry IV story)
- 📝 According to Catholicism did Pope Linus know that he was the Pope and Head of the Church?
- 📝 According to Catholicism must we all suffer in life?
- 📝 According to Catholicism, would it be wrong for a husband to intentionally eat in such a way as to decrease fertility?
- 📝 According to Catholicism and/ or Protestantism, how many times was Jesus of Nazareth, whether pre-incarnate or incarnate, begotten?
- 📝 According to Catholic teaching, does sin disfigure?
- 📝 According to the Catholic Church, can having ideations to sin ever be mortally sinful?
- 📝 According to Catholicism what happens to young children who die before being baptized?
- 📝 Why is it not that a state divorce is actually an argument AGAINST a church annulment petition rather than a necessary condition for such petition?