Editing Sin (section)

== Capital sin ==

* "c'''apital sin'''" or "c'''apital vice'''" ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/458/ CCC 1866])
* also called the "cardinal sin"
** cardinal = chief, principal, pivotal
* capital sins are grouped into the "Seven Deadly Sins"
** ''pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth''
*** ''acedia'' is often used instead of "sloth", as it more specifically refers to slothfulness in the spirit, not just physical laziness
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|+Seven Deadly Sins
!Sin
!Definition
!Leads to mortal sin...
!Ten Commandments
!Notes
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|'''1. Pride'''
|self-love, absence of humility
|Jesus taught that mortal sin starts in the heart, thus pride may lead to all other sins and to the worst degree
|First, Second
|One of the Three-fold sins
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|'''2. Covetousness'''
|disordered desire for what one does not have or need
|theft, fraud, adultery, 
|Ninth, Tenth 
|note that "desire" is not inherently bad; we desire food when hungry; but desiring what is not needed, what is not one's own is sinful (see CCC
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|'''3. Lust'''
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|'''4. Anger'''
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|'''5. Gluttony'''
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|'''6. Envy'''
|"sadness at the sight of another's goods" and "immoderate desire" for them [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/608/ (CCC 2539])
|theft, murder
|Tenth
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* envy "wishes grave harm" upon a neighbor (CCC 2539)
* envy also seeds to joy in another's misfortune (from St. Augustine, CCC 2439)
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|'''7. Sloth'''
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* "capital" because these are the "head" of other sins (i.e., lead to them)
* "deadly" because they lead to death and damnation