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Full knowledge is knowledge of the immoral quality, that it is a sin. Baltimore Catechism explains full knowledge as sufficient reflection.…
Okay, then show me the terms that have to do with a state of “knowing”.
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Q. 282. How many things are necessary to make a sin mortal?
A. To make a sin mortal, three things are necessary: a grievous matter, sufficient reflection, and full consent of the will.
Q. 284. What does “sufficient reflection and full consent of the will” mean?
A. “Sufficient reflection” means that we must know the thought, word or deed to be sinful at the time we are guilty of it; and “full consent of the will” means that we must fully and willfully yield to it.
The term knowledge is also termed advertence in older publications:
O’Neil, A.C. (1912). Sin. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htmNo mortal sin is committed in a state of invincible ignorance or in a half-conscious state. Actual advertence to the sinfulness of the act is not required, virtual advertence suffices. It is not necessary that the explicit intention to offend God and break His law be present, the full and free consent of the will to an evil act suffices.
Degrees of knowledge of the moral character:
- invincible ignorance (no actual sin but material sin)
- vincible ignorance (the ignorance itself can be a sin)
- partial knowledge (venial sin)
- full knowledge (present in mortal sin and maybe in venial sin)
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