MORTAL SIN - THREE CONDITIONS MUST BE MET

QUESTION? / COMMENT!

I always thought that it is a mortal sin to encourage someone to practice a false religion: Hinduism, lslam, etc. I asked Dr. David Anders on EWTN’s “Called to Communion” program and didn’t get a straight answer, so I’m turning to you.

ANSWER! / COMMENT!

If your a practicing Catholic who knows his faith and you are counseling someone to practice a false religion, thats serious, and doiing so with full knowledge that it is a false religion and doing so with your own free will - that is called in Catholicism a mortal sin.

1857 For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: "Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent."131

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."132 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.

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.