mortal sin

seven deadly sins

Traditional mortal transgressions

• confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
• absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
• penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing

contrition · state of grace · excommunication · salvation · eternal punishment · divine law · last rites · catechism · dogma · anathema

confession

Admission of wrongdoing

• absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
• penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
• atonementCompensation for wrongdoing

redemption · forgiveness · reconciliation · amendment · expiation · restitution · purification · sanctification · conversion · reform

hellfire

Eternal punishment by flame

• perditionEternal spiritual ruin
• eternal punishmentEndless suffering after death
• condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally

brimstone · judgment · Gehenna · abyss · torment · lake of fire · doom · lost soul · spiritual death · fire and brimstone

grave

Serious and worrying

• deadlyAble to cause expiration
• heinousOdiously, shockingly evil
• unforgivableCannot be pardoned

grievous · cardinal · capital · serious · damning · irredeemable · inexcusable · abominable · egregious · atrocious

remorse

Guilt for wrongdoing

• shamePainful awareness of failure
• contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
• self-reproachBlaming oneself for wrongdoing

penitence · culpability · regret · guilty conscience · pangs of conscience · self-condemnation · compunction · burden · torment · anguish

• Biblical ExpressionsGarden of Eden, David and Goliath, Good Samaritan, prodigal son, forbidden fruit
• confessionconfession, absolution, admission, acknowledgment, declaration
• sindeadly sins, seven deadly sins, cardinal sins, transgression, iniquity
• sinsgreed, lust, gluttony, sloth, coveting
• Catholic doctrineTrinity, transubstantiation, purgatory, indulgences, sacred tradition
• moral theologyconscience, natural law, moral law, moral virtues, cardinal virtues