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Kinds of Theft and Robbery. (b) The good of others is another reason, in order that they be notdemoralized by the vilification of one whom they have t that completed aninternal sin must be declared, 2741 d; circumstances that notablyaggravate a sin without changing its species, 2742 a; external effectsof a sin must be confessed, 2742 b; uncertain sins must be confessed,2742 c; when material integrity is not necessary, 2743; completion orrepetition of past incomplete Hence,just as the stealing of a cow and the stealing of a cat are onlygreater and lesser forms of the sin of theft, so likewise calumny anddetraction, etc.

Injury to property rights, whether in goods or in knowledge, isviolation of a strict right (see 1890, 1894). (a) A moral debt is more urgent, when without its fulfillment onecannot keep to the decency of virtue, that is, one cannot preserve thecharacter of a virtuous man. This kind of bodily bravery is a preparation orpredisposition for moral courage. But some authors admit a generic confession (inwhich the penitent merely states that he sinned mortally or venially,as the case was, by i