Catechism index

1861 IV. The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of …
1862 IV. The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin One commits venial sin when, in a less serious matter, he does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when he disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, …
1863 IV. The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin Venial sin weakens charity; it manifests a disordered affection for created goods; it impedes the soul's progress in the exercise of the virtues and the practice of the moral good; it merits …
1864 IV. The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin "Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin." 136 There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to …
1865 V. The Proliferation of Sin Sin creates a proclivity to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgment of good and evil. …
1866 V. The Proliferation of Sin Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. …
1867 V. The Proliferation of Sin The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel, 139 The sin of the Sodomites, 140 The cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, …
1868 V. The Proliferation of Sin Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: - by participating directly and voluntarily in them; - by ordering, …
1869 V. The Proliferation of Sin Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine …
1870 IN BRIEF "God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all" (Rom 11:32).
1871 IN BRIEF Sin is an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law (St. Augustine, Faust 22: PL 42, 418). It is an offense against God. It rises up against God …
1872 IN BRIEF Sin is an act contrary to reason. It wounds man's nature and injures human solidarity.
1873 IN BRIEF The root of all sins lies in man's heart. the kinds and the gravity of sins are determined principally by their objects.
1874 IN BRIEF To choose deliberately - that is, both knowing it and willing it - something gravely contrary to the divine law and to the ultimate end of man is to commit a mortal …
1875 IN BRIEF Venial sin constitutes a moral disorder that is reparable by charity, which it allows to subsist in us.
1876 IN BRIEF The repetition of sins - even venial ones - engenders vices, among which are the capital sins. Previous - Next Copyright © Libreria Editrice Vaticana
1877 THE HUMAN COMMUNION The vocation of humanity is to show forth the image of God and to be transformed into the image of the Father's only Son. This vocation takes a personal form since each …
1878 I. The Communal Character of the Human Vocation All men are called to the same end: God himself. There is a certain resemblance between the union of the divine persons and the fraternity that men are to establish among themselves …
1879 I. The Communal Character of the Human Vocation The human person needs to live in society. Society is not for him an extraneous addition but a requirement of his nature. Through the exchange with others, mutual service and dialogue with …
1880 I. The Communal Character of the Human Vocation A society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them. As an assembly that is at once visible and spiritual, …