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Is Drinking or Smoking a Sin? Fr. Ripperger on Temperance & Excess

Sensus Fidelium· 408K subscribers

2d ago · English audio

Is drinking alcohol or using tobacco inherently sinful? Fr. Chad Ripperger examines alcohol, tobacco, temperance, sobriety, and the distinction between enjoying created goods and abusing them. Beginning with Christ’s miracle at the Wedding at Cana, this sermon considers the role of reason, intention, prudence, and individual circumstances in moral decisions. Father discusses drunkenness, excess, abstinence, harmful…

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11.2K views ÷ a 3.4K baseline = 3.3×. Compared with 50 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

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