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>“With your thinking”<

What in the hell do you think you know of my thinking? Catholics are free to think anything they feel like thinking about how to deal with illegals. MY THINKING is we take care of them, feed them, give them a bath and send them back to where they came from.

Now, would your phrase, "what in the hell" be a mortal sin? I sense extreme anger and hatred in your post.

1.Its subject must be a grave (or serious) matter.

2.It must be committed with full knowledge, both of the sin and of the gravity of the offense; "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 [mental illness]. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest." Also, "Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors."

3.It must be committed with deliberate and complete consent, enough for it to have been a personal decision to commit the sin. "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 heart do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin."

Sure sounds like it to me.

However, I don't hold anything against you and forgive you for any ill feelings you may have against me.