What Are The Four Sins That Cry To Heaven For Vengeance?

Catechism of the Catholic Church

1867 – The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are “sins that cry to heaven”:

1. the blood of Abel,¹³⁹
   • 139 – Cf. Gen 4:10
      
2. the sin of the sodomy,¹⁴⁰
   • 140 – Cf. Gen 18:20; 19:13
      
3. the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,¹⁴¹
   • 141 – Cf. Ex 3:7-10
      
4. the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan,¹⁴²
   • 142 – Cf. Ex 20:20-22
      
5. injustice to the wage earner.¹⁴³
   • 143 – Cf. Deut 24:14-15; Jas 5:4

Catechism of St Pius X

8 – Q. Which are the sins that are said to cry to God for vengeance?

1. The sins that are said to cry to God for vengeance are these four:
   1. Willful murder;
   2. The sin of sodomy;
   3. Oppression of the poor;
   4. Defrauding labourers of their wages.

9 – Q. Why are these sins said to cry to God for vengeance?

• These sins are said to cry to God for vengeance because the Holy Ghost says so, and because their iniquity is so great and so manifest that it provokes God to punish them with the severest chastisements.