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  2. Venial sin - Wikipedia

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    According to Catholicism, a venial sin is a lesser sin that does not result in a complete separation from God and eternal damnation in Hell as an unrepented mortal sin would. [1] [2] [3] A venial sin consists in acting as one should not, without the actual incompatibility with the state of grace that a mortal sin implies; they do not break one's friendship with God, but injure it.

  3. Christian views on sin - Wikipedia

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    Venial sins are sins which do not meet the conditions for mortal sins. The act of committing a venial sin does not cut off the sinner from God's grace, as the sinner has not rejected God. However, venial sins do injure the relationship between the sinner and God, and as such, must be reconciled to God, either through the Sacrament of ...

  4. List of excommunicable offences from the Council of Trent

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    lf any one saith, that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he that falls and sins was never truly justified; or, on the other hand, that he is able, during his whole life, to avoid all sins, even those that are venial,-except by a special privilege from God, as the Church holds in regard of the Blessed ...

  5. Catholic hamartiology - Wikipedia

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    Hieronymus Bosch's The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things. Catholic hamartiology is a branch of Catholic thought that studies sin.According to the Catholic Church, sin is an "utterance, deed, or desire," [1] caused by concupiscence, [2] that offends God, reason, truth, and conscience. [3]

  6. Mortal sin - Wikipedia

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    A penitent confessing his sins in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Bernardines in Lviv, Ukraine. A mortal sin (Latin: peccātum mortāle), in Christian theology, is a gravely sinful act which can lead to damnation if a person does not repent of the sin before death.

  7. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    Venial sin, while not depriving the sinner of friendship with God or the eternal happiness of heaven, [43] "weakens charity, manifests a disordered affection for created goods, and impedes the soul's progress in the exercise of the virtues and the practice of the moral good; it merits temporal punishment", [43] for "every sin, even venial ...

  8. Dogma at 25: How a controversial Catholic comedy became ...

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    Armed with the plot point of a sin-removing doctrinal loophole, Smith began developing the script for a film he at first simply called God while still working on his breakout debut Clerks (1994).

  9. Actual sin - Wikipedia

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    In Roman Catholic theology, venial sin will not cause loss of heaven in itself, but can eventually lead to the death of the soul by making the doer weaker to resisting mortal sin. Sin is made venial in two ways: The sin is not seriously wrong. The sin is seriously wrong, but the sinner honestly believes that it is only slightly wrong, or does ...