venial sin

The SEC charging Goldman with securities fraud is like the Vatican charging a priest with venial sin.

That is true, the Church teaches, even of unrepented156 venial sin with its debt of temporal punishment.

The first is a venial sin, and easily forgiven—the second nearly unpardonable.

What is a venial sin against nature, what a mortal sin against nature?

It is at most an evil thought, a venial sin, which does not endanger the loss of body or of soul.

O quiet paths of algebra, you are my excuse for this venial sin!