OOPS #2
A very astute and respectful reader has pointed out a misstatement in the entry about the murder of the abortion Doctor. In that article I offered as the third requirement for mortal sin that a person has to knowingly commit the act knowing that he or she would offend God in so doing. Well I was partly correct but the reader pointed me to the Catechism of the Catholic Church which states that the third requirement is that the act be done “with full consent of the will.” That is the correct terminology and I tried hard when I was writing the blog in the absence of the Catechism to recall the precise language so what I wrote can be ascribed to a “senior moment” and is one more proof that when someone looks at my writings, they are going to throw up their arms in exasperation and say, “what was that man thinking?” Thanks, Pam, for the rejoinder nicely delivered.
+RNL
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