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2. Have I callously rejoiced over the serious
misfortunes that came to others, not because they might be turned away from sin thereby, but
because it pleased me to see them suffer?

3. Have I sought opportunities to revenge myself on others by inflicting serious pain on them?

4. Have I slandered others, i.e., attributed serious sins to them which they did not commit, or
of which I had no evidence?

5. Have I ruined the reputation of others, telling their secret serious sins to persons who could
not otherwise have known and who had no reason to know these sins?

6. Have I lied in order that I might gain from another's serious loss?

7. Have I directly desired and tried to lead another into sin, because I wanted to turn him away
from religion?

8. Have I induced another to sin to gratify my own passions?

9. Have I tried to induce another person to sin seriously, even though I did not succeed?

10. Have I advised or otherwise induced persons to practice contraception, or abortion, or to get
a divorce and remarry?

11. Have I taught employees or others under my supervision how to cheat in business for the sake of
profit?

12. Have I sold or given away obscene magazines, bad pictures, or contraceptives, or other things
designed for sin?

13. Have I destroyed or lessened the faith of others by speaking contemptuously about
religion, or the Church, or priests, etc.?

14. Have I advised or encouraged Catholics not to send their children to a Catholic school?

15. Have I urged another to keep on drinking until he became intoxicated?

16. Have I sold liquor to persons when I knew they were already intoxicated and would keep on
drinking, or when I knew they were about to become intoxicated?

17. Have I committed a mortal sin that did not involve others, knowing, however, that my example
would probably lead others to do the same?

18. Have I given occasion to evil thought in others by gravely immodest dress, looks, words, or
actions?

19. Have I cooperated with another in the commission of a mortal sin - for example, of stealing, by
providing the necessary means or the necessary occasion?

20. Have I helped doctors perform illegal operations, or businessmen to consummate unjust
transactions, or heretics to spread false doctrines?

21. Have I assisted at the invalid marriage of a Catholic before a judge or minister, or taken part
in any non-Catholic religious ceremony?

22. Have I deprived an unborn child of its right to life by causing an abortion, or paying for an
abortion, or cooperating in it in some other way?

II . VENIAL SINS

1. Have I been touchy and sensitive
towards those around me?

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