Violating your conscience

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If you feel like an action will violate your conscience but deliberately violate your conscience in such a manner anyway, is that violation a mortal sin? Perhaps a better wording would be: even if the matter / situation is venial, would the violation of conscience be in itself a grave prohibition? If your conscience is very sensitive, does that mean violations in little matters could be mortally sinful?
 
An “action that violates your conscience” is nothing more than a sin. So what you have really asked is, “Is it a mortal sin to commit any sin at all, mortal or venial?” And, of course, the answer is no.

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It has to be grave matter to be a mortal sin. Even if you have a very sensitive conscience (what a great thing), a sin cannot be mortal unless it is grave matter.

saintaquinas.com/mortal_sin.html

What kinds of offenses against God constitute “grave matter”?
In the Bible, St. Paul gives us a list of grave sins. He states that anyone who commits these sins shall not enter the kingdom of God. “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-20). Paul also tells the Corinthians, “know you no that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards nor railers, nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). These sins constitute grave matter, and if they are committed willingly and with full consent, constitute mortal sin.
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The Church also tells us that the sins of anger, blasphemy, envy, hatred, malice, murder, neglect of Sunday obligation, sins against faith (incredulity against God or heresy), sins against hope (obstinate despair in the hope for salvation and/or presumption that oneself can live without God or be saved by one’s own power) and sins against love (indifference towards charity, ingratitude, and/or hatred of God) also constitute grave matter. This list of grave sins, is based on Jesus Christ’s interpretation of the gravity of the Ten Commandments. Grave sins can be classed as sins against God, neighbor and self, and can further be divided into carnal and spiritual sins (CCC 1853).
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But, if you commit venial sins over and over without trying to stop, it will propel you into more serious sins.
 
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