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ntial, as whenreligion is made to center in pictures or music or a sentimentalattachment for some favorite Saint. --The amount of the penance should be suited as apunishment to the degree of the penitent's guilt, that is, a heavierpenance should be given for necessary matter and a lighter penance forfree matter. The Sinfulness of Derision. 12-15); similarly, in a very few instances where there is aserious good more important than the preservation of the bond (thefaith of a convert f

(a) Thus, as to place, charity does not require thatone go about looking for the needy, but that one help those who are athand. Thus, whether one obeys God, or theChurch, or the State, or parents, the virtue is always one and the same. On the other hand,the danger is light when the persons present are of mature age and notstrongly inclined to This happens when the posited act is not of a venereal kind (anunnecessary conversation on indifferent topics) or is only mildlyexciting (e.