{"id":47,"date":"2017-10-28T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T01:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/uncategorised\/2017\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T05:00:20","slug":"will-i-go-to-hell-for-practicing-witchcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/ask-a-priest\/2017\/will-i-go-to-hell-for-practicing-witchcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I go to Hell for practicing Witchcraft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"askp-question\"><strong>When I was in elementary school, I was obsessed with wolves and dogs. I tried a spell to turn myself into one, and now, I&#8217;m regretting it. They didn&#8217;t work, because I think I stopped in the middle of it. But I&#8217;m still worried God won&#8217;t forgive me. I&#8217;m trying to get to confession today, but I&#8217;m scared my mortal sin won&#8217;t be forgiven.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"askp-date\">Asked at 12:27 pm on October 28th 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"askp-answer\">\n<p>Hi Emily, to commit a mortal sin we must have full knowledge and full consent, and what we&#8217;re doing must be seriously wrong. Since what you write about happened when you were in elementary school, I very much doubt if you were fully aware (or aware at all) that what you were doing could be seriously sinful, and knowing that, continued to do it. Anyway, there&#8217;s no sin so serious that it can&#8217;t be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>I think by the time you read this, you&#8217;ll already have told a priest in confession what you did and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll have shown God&#8217;s infinite mercy even for what I believe at the very most was a minor venial sin. You&#8217;re now much more aware of how harmful to our souls any dabbling in spirits can be, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll never do that again. Assuring you of my prayers for all the good things you&#8217;re hoping to do in your life. Very best, Fr Brendan<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"askp-date\">Replied at 11:14 pm on November 06th 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I was in elementary school, I was obsessed with wolves and dogs. I tried a spell to turn...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}