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It is accompanied by pleasureand often by libidinous dreams. , if one has no strict right to the spiritual thing,or if the opposition is just), as when the candidate for a beneficepays a competito Often thereis no sin at all, the vain observance being due to ignorance or thewish to joke. and the motive of the law is the factor thatdetermines the moral character of precepts and prohibitions of humanlaw.

onscience, 602; rulesregarding sins due to lax conscience, 603-604; opinion as state ofconscience, 662 sqq. prayer with distractions that lastduring a notable part of the prayer and that are deliberatelyentertained. yprolong life, looked to natural causes, and hence to that extent seemto be guilty of false science, rather than of superstition. profit, it is forbidden by Canon 138 or 142, as the case may be,and is gravely or venially sinful according to the circumstances.