Question about mortal sin?

[followingtheway]

So basically I know that Mortal Sin has to be…

1. 
   *] A grave matter
   *] Full consent
   *]Full knowledge that it’s a mortal sin
   
   But most of my friends commit mortal sins like fornication, pornography, and masturbation but don’t know the teachings of the Church. What happens to them?

 

[merne9]

last week i purchased a short handbook called, “What ever happened to sin?” by Peter Black. on pg. 28 he writes exactly about that. “Mortal sin destroys love in our hearts, referred to in the *Catechism *as sanctifying grace (1861). It turns us away from God, who is our ultimate end, and consequently turns us away from eternal happiness (CCC1855).” What I have understood is We chose Eternal life here on Earth. All debts must be paid before entering heaven. Our collective prayers are the only hope for salvation of sinners.

 

[athenasius]

Your friends are not at fault just because of their ignorance, but you might be! If your friends don’t know the teachings of the church about these mortal sins, then it is your job to gently inform them. this is really all you can do. But the church teaches that if you do not at least do this this then you are as guilty as them. Oh yeah, you should also pray for them too.

 

[thistle]

So basically I know that Mortal Sin has to be…

1. 
   *] A grave matter
   *] Full consent
   *]Full knowledge that it’s a mortal sin
   
   But most of my friends commit mortal sins like fornication, pornography, and masturbation but don’t know the teachings of the Church. What happens to them?

1. 
   I find it hard to believe that a Catholic does not know the Church teaches that fornication, pornography, and masturbation are sins of grave matter.
   However, if they really did not know that they could be construed as vincibly ignorant. On the other hand ignorance is not bliss as it is incumbent on all Catholics to learn what the Church teaches and if someone does not do that either through laziness or deliberate refusal to learn then they will be held culpable for any sins of grave matter they commit.
   
   You, of course, can tell (if they really don’t know) or remind (if they knew but had forgotten) your friends that these things are sins of grave matter as taught by the Church. That in itself will mean they know (full knowledge is satisfied by knowing the Church teaches that). They would no longer be able to claim they did not know. If they choose to ignore that that is their problem as their immortal souls will be in danger.

 

[The_Blunt_Brig]

If they don’t know it’s a mortal sin they’re still in a state of grace. But the priest and religious education teachers, parents, and others who were supposed to teach them did evil.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which Pope John Paul II stated is as “a sure norm for teaching the faith” says something relevant to this

2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. The person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor’s tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense.

2285 Scandal takes on a particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."86 Scandal is grave when given by those who by nature or office are obliged to teach and educate others. Jesus reproaches the scribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to wolves in sheep’s clothing.87

2286 Scandal can be provoked by laws or institutions, by fashion or opinion.

Therefore, they are guilty of scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of morals and the corruption of religious practice, or to "social conditions that, intentionally or not, make Christian conduct and obedience to the Commandments difficult and practically impossible."88 This is also true of business leaders who make rules encouraging fraud, teachers who provoke their children to anger,89 or manipulators of public opinion who turn it away from moral values.

2287 Anyone who uses the power at his disposal in such a way that it leads others to do wrong becomes guilty of scandal and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly encouraged. "Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!"90

By rejecting the idea that things that are encouraged by the culture (premarital sex, masturbation, drug abuse) which their parishioners were likely to be asked to do should be taught as grave non-nos they sinned seriously.

One of the Spiritual Works of Mercy is to admonish sinners. They have turned their backs on their good work.

“From this comes that threat: “Woe to him who does evil. Woe to him twice who is complacent with it” – Vae faciendi, vae, vae consentienti. It is evident that the one who remains silent about a fault is complacent with it, since a few words from him would suffice to prevent an offense to the glory of God.” (St. Gertrude, Book III, chap. 30, in Révélations de Saint Gertrude, Vièrge de l’Ordre de Saint Benoit, Paris: Alfred Mame, 1921, p. 218).

 

[Bookcat]

1859 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 a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart133 do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.

1860 Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man. The promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest.

1861 Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ’s kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.

1862 One commits venial sin when, in a less serious matter, he does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when he disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, but without full knowledge or without complete consent.

scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a8.htm#IV

A person can know various things are seriously opposed to God --without the understanding the moral theology of it all…

But God will be the one to judge…

And Jesus came for our salvation – so we can have friendship with God --the life of grace --life in abundance-- so we can have *true life *in him

May we all have this life in Christ