Mortal Sin

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What is the understanding behind “grave matter”? How do you determine whether something is grave? It seems a little ambiguous to me.
 
Rabid said:
What is the understanding behind “grave matter”? How do you determine whether something is grave? It seems a little ambiguous to me.
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it depends on the intention. if there is an intention to offend God or offend others or even yourself (self mutilation, suicide, etc.) then it is grave matter. you may kill someone but never intend to, maybe as a result of self defense or an accident, then its not grave matter. but you can do something really trivial but your intention is to offend God, then it is a grave matter.
 
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What is the understanding behind “grave matter”? How do you determine whether something is grave? It seems a little ambiguous to me.
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines grave matter as:
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**1858**. Grave matter is specified by the Ten Commandments, corresponding to the answer of Jesus to the rich young man: "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 who is wronged: violence against parents is in itself graver than violence against a stranger.
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What is the understanding behind “grave matter”? How do you determine whether something is grave? It seems a little ambiguous to me.
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You need to discuss it with your priest. Remember that it is not so much what we may consider ‘grave’, but what the church considers grave moral offenses.

For instance, you might not think that viewing internet porn or an of impurity are that ‘grave’ … surely they are not on par with murder. But both are mortal sins.

Again, when in doubt take all your sins to Confession and your confessor will help you with spiritual guidance.
 
“Grave Matter: The act itself is intrinsically evil and immoral. For example, murder, rape, incest, perjury, adultery, and so on are grave matter.” - Catholicism for Dummies Pg 207
But it would be something that would hurt - the victim, the doer, or anyone else. It would cause hurt to anyone and possibly anybody.
 
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You ask your confessor.
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My confessor says that watching pornography is a mortal sin and masturbation. Both of these offend God.

The number one mortal sin is delibrately missing Mass on Sunday. I got chewed out in whispers by a 90 year old priest for this one years ago. It made an impact on me. It truly was the Holy Spirit speaking to me in the confessional.

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1 of the 3 conditions for mortal sin is grave matter. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which Pope John Paul II, stated is “a sure norm for teaching the faith” mention many grave matters. Here’s a list.
Catechism of the Catholic Church Reference Numbers 2272, 2480, 2380, 2148, 2434, 2181, 2117, 2384 to 2386, 2290 & 2291, 2539, 2277, 2302, 2152 & 2476, 2353, 2303, 2357, 2388, 2482, 2352, 2268, 2163, 2354, 2355, 2356, 2439, 2120, 2284, 2281, 2297, 2413 & 2434, 2268, 2400, 2434:
  • Abortion (any formal cooperation in it)
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    Acceptance by human society of murderous famines without trying to fix it
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    Adulation of another's grave faults if it makes one an accomplice in another's vices or grave sins, but it is not grave when it only seeks to be agreeable, to avoid evil, to meet a need, or to obtain legitimate advantages.
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    Adultery
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    Blasphemy
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    Deliberate failure to go to mass on Holy Days of Obligation unless excused for a serious reason or dispensed by one's own pastor
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    Divination, magic, and sorcery
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    Divorce (If civil divorce, which cannot do anything to the spiritual marriage in the eyes of God, remains the only possible way of ensuring certain legal rights, the protection of inheritance, or the care of the children it is not a sin.)
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    Drug Abuse
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    Endangering their own and others' safety by drunkenness or a love of speed on the road, at sea or in the air
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    Envy (if to the level of wishing grave harm to another)
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    Euthanasia
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    Extreme Anger (at the level of truly and deliberately desiring to seriously hurt or kill someone)
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    Fornication
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    Hatred of a neighbor/to deliberately desire him or her great harm
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    Homosexual acts
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    Incest
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    Lying (the gravity is measured by "the truth it deforms, the circumstances, the intentions of the one who lies, and the harm suffered by its victims")
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    Masturbation
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    Murder (except when done in self defense or defense of others when there is no other way)
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    Perjury and False Oaths
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    Polygamy
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    Pornography
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    Prostitution
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    Rape
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    Rich nation's refusal to aid those which are unable to ensure the means of their development by themselves
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    Sacrilege
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    Scandal (deliberately causing someone to sin gravely)
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    Suicide
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    Terrorism that threatens, wounds and kills indiscriminately
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    Unfair wagers and cheating at games unless the damage is unusually light
 
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