Dear Apologist(s),

I was wondering how to confess the sin of giving scandal in Confession. Say I led someone to miss Mass on a Sunday:

• Would I have to describe how I led them to miss Mass?

For example:

• I led someone to miss Mass by encouraging them to come to the beach instead, or
  
• I led someone to miss Mass by telling them they shouldn't go, or
• I led someone to miss Mass by driving them to the beach during the time they should have been at Mass.
• Or another way.

If I said, I led a friend to throw a brick at someone.

• Would that be fine as it is?
  or, would I have to say,
  
  
• I led a friend to throw a brick at someone by encouraging him to throw a brick at them, or
• I led a friend to throw a brick at someone by giving him the brick to throw, or
• I led a friend to throw a brick at someone by not trying to stop him when he told me he was about to throw a brick at a person.

I know with some sins you have to give the circumstances because they go from one kind of sin to another.

For example,

I stole a book from a friend, would be one sin while, I stole a book from the Church, would be sacrilegious and so a different kind of sin.

• Is it the same with giving scandal?

Thank you for your time,

Kind regards

Stan