page_title: Gluttony
section_title: Catholicism
hierarchical_section_title: Gluttony / In religion / Catholicism
context_page_description: Gluttony means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or wealth items, particularly as status symbols.
  In Christianity, it is considered a sin if the excessive desire for food causes it to be withheld from the needy. Some Christian denominations consider gluttony one of the seven deadly sins.
context_section_description: Church leaders from the ascetic Middle Ages took a more expansive view of gluttony:
caption: Gula - The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, by Hieronymus Bosch
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