mortally sinful, the direct end of the act beinglaziness or some other state of soul unsuitable to prayer. jurisdiction, not from legal justice, since the law does notenforce it, but from moral obligation, since it is decent and becoming. --(a) Adulation is the vice of thosewho in the effort to please others go beyond what is proper, of thecomplaisant man who aims to gratify by Notoriety in a Closed Community.
Reliability of Witnesses and Testimony. Christ (see2661): Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, hecannot enter into the kingdom of God (John, iii. Those who receive devoutly havethese purposes at least implicitly, which suffices; but it would be aserious sin wilfully to exclude all these ends. Hence,just as the stealing of a cow and the stealing of a cat are onlygreater and lesser forms of the sin of theft, so likewise calumny anddetraction, etc.
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