The only unforgivable sin according to the Church is "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit"[1], which is defined as refusal of God's mercy and forgiveness [2].
Whether there is an explicit biblical condemnation (I don't know, but I would be surprised if there weren't) is not relevant, at least not to a Catholic. Sola scriptura is the province of Protestants.
Doesn't the church teach that we are all born sinners (original sin), meaning that nobody is perfect, but that one can confess their sins, repent, and be forgiven? Doesn't that apply to priests, also? Or do they loose their priesthood if they sin? Have they treated gay priests differently than child abusing priests?
> The Catholic church has perverted the gospel in many ways
Whichever side of Catholic-Protestant disputes is a perversion, we can avoid inventing false ones as a slander. (The Decalogue, as I recall, has something to say about that.)
> Salvation by works, condemned in the Bible
The Catholic Church does not believe in justification by works but that works are the fruit of justification; for a rather more thorough explanation, see, the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification By the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church. [0]
The Catholic church used to teach that all non-catholics would be damned to "permanent eternal suffering". They have "backtracked" on this and there has not been any resultant problems.
While Catholics may be Christians, it is disingenuous to assert this is the teaching of the Church or that a majority or plurality of faithful Catholics have this position.
There is a very clear delineation between temptation and sin in the Catholic world.
>846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
>Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336
>847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:
>Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.337
>848 "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men.
So it's "the only path" if in a relationship, with the alternatives being living in sin or not having a relationship. That is really very traditional Catholicism
The Catholic Church might consider it a sin but that doesn't correlate with American Catholics wanting to ban contraceptives. I'd wager most American Catholics don't agree and then even more don't care about it's legality.
The Catholic Church also considers adultery a sin but that doesn't mean Catholics want adulterers executed.
[1]: https://ucatholic.com/catechism/1864/
[2]: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/d... (see 46)
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