XXIV–XXV. Sin against conscience and not against conscience
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XXIV.Sin against conscience is when someone acts against the dictate of conscience, whether right or erroneous — for even an erroneous conscience, until corrected, obliges one not to act against it (Romans 14:23).XXV.Sin not against conscience is when an objectively evil act is committed without actual contradiction of conscience, whether from ignorance or from a hardening habit.
Actual sins are not only those that happen from stubbornness, destined malice, and an hardened custom of sinning, but also those committed from infirmity and ignorance — and not only by committing, but also by omitting or by communicating with others sins.Of the permission of sin the following chapter must treat.
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XXIV. Peccatum contra conscientiam est, quando quis agit contra dictamen conscientiae rectae vel erroneae — nam etiam erronea, donec corrigatur, obligat ad non agendum contra eam (Rom. 14:23). XXV. Peccatum non contra conscientiam est, quando actus obiective malus committitur absque actuali contradictione conscientiae, sive ex ignorantia sive ex induresciente consuetudine. Actualia peccata non solum ea sunt quae fiunt ex contumacia, destinata malitia, et indurata peccandi consuetudine, sed et quae committuntur ex infirmitate et ignorantia, nec tantum committendo, sed et omittendo vel aliorum peccatis communicando. De permissione peccati sequenti capite agendum.