Mortal Sin: Full Consent

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I have a question about mortal sin. I was listening to EWTN, and in a segment, I thought I heard one of the speakers at the time stating that one of the conditions for a sin to be mortal is full consent.

With that in mind, I have a friend who has struggled through his life with masturbation, and he has repented, but sometimes on a rare occasion during his sleep he will start to do it and once he becomes of aware of what he is doing he stops. At that point, would that be considered a mortal sin?
 
You need all of your faculties to commit a mortal sin. Being asleep when you do something minimizes your culpability. As long as your friend stops when he realizes what is happening, he is fine.
 
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