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Hi Linda,
Thanks for your question.
A mortal sin requires three criteria:
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be met together.
CCC 1857 Mortal sin is sin whose object is:
- grave matter
- which is also committed with full knowledge
- and with deliberate consent.
(Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 17 § 12)
CCC 1858 Grave matter is specified by the Ten Commandments,
corresponding to the answer of Jesus to the rich young man: "Do not
kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness,
Do not defraud, Honor your father and your mother." (Mark 10:19)
The gravity of
sins is more or less great: murder is graver than theft. One must also
take into account who is wronged: violence against parents is in itself
graver than violence against a stranger. |
The gravity of the sin, depending on the situation, may not be as grave
as other sins, but if you knowingly put more time down on you time card
then you should have, or left earlier then you should have, then it is
a sin.
If you take less than a day's wage or work extra hours you
didn't account for in your timecard, you can probably balance it off by
leaving earlier by the amount of time you didn't account for on another
day, but you should always make your supervisor aware of this, otherwise they will understandably question why you left early.
I hope this helps,
Mike
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