sin: definition: ccc

Re: Sin, Definition
Fr: Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994). “The definition of sin.” # 1849-1851.

Sin =

-- “is an offense against reason, truth and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love of God and neighbor caused by a PERVERSE ATTACHMENT to certain goods”. (# 1849)

-- is “’an utterance, a deed or a desire CONTRARY TO THE ETERNAL LAW”. – St. Augustine, Contra Faustum 22: PL 42, 418; St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-Ii, 71, 6. (# 1849)

-- is “’LOVE OF ONESELF even to contempt of God”. – St. Augustine, De civitatis Dei 14, 28: PL 41, 436. (# 1850)