Sin
(csacin)
SIN
Sin is an offense against reason truth and right conscience. It is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as an utterance a deed or a desire contrary to the eternal law. Sins are rightly evaluated according to their gravity. The distinction between mortal and venial sin already evident in Scripture became part of the tradition of the Church. It is corroborated by human experience .For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent. The Ten Commandments corresponding to the answer of Jesus to the rich young man specify rave matter: Do not kill. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness. Do not defraud. Honor your father and your mother. The gravity of sins is more or less great: murder is graver than theft. One must also take into account that is wronged: violence against parents is in itself graver than violence against a stranger. Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God's law. It also implies consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.
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