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I would like to know if there is an exhaustive list of all common venial and mortal sins or, at least, most common venial and mortal sins. It could in a certain sense be useful. I know mortal sins are usually said to be tied to the 10 commandments one way or another, but I think it wouldn't be out of touch to have additional explicit lists.

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The 7 capital sins, which give rise to other sins, can be mortal:

  1. Pride
  2. Greed
  3. Lust
  4. Anger
  5. Gluttony
  6. Envy
  7. Sloth

St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica II-II devotes separate questions (collections of articles) to the following, which are or can be sins or vices; for many of them, he discusses whether they can be mortal (many of them can be):

10. Unbelief in General
11. Heresy
12. Apostasy
13. Sin of Blasphemy, in General
14. Blasphemy Against the Holy Ghost
15. Vices Opposed to Knowledge and Understanding
        1. blindness of mind
        2. dullness of sense
20. Despair
21. Presumption
34. Hatred
35. Sloth
36. Envy
37. Discord, Which Is Contrary to Peace
38. Contention
39. Schism
40. War
41. Strife
42. Sedition
43. Scandal
46. Folly Which Is Opposed to Wisdom

Treatise on Prudence and Justice

53. Imprudence
54. Negligence
55. Vices Opposed to Prudence by Way of Resemblance
        1. prudence of the flesh
        3. craftiness
        4. guile
        5. fraud
        6. solicitude about temporal things
        7. solicitude about the future
59. Injustice
63. Respect of Persons
64. Murder
65. Injuries Committed on the Person
        1. mutilation of members
        2. blows
        3. imprisonment
66. Theft and Robbery
67. Injustice of a Judge, in Judging
68. Matters Concerning Unjust Accusation
69. Sins Committed Against Justice on the Part of the Defendant
70. Injustice with Regard to the Person of the Witness
71. Injustice in Judgment on the Part of Counsel
72. Reviling
73. Backbiting
74. Tale-Bearing
75. Derision
76. Cursing
77. Cheating, Which is Committed in Buying and Selling
78. Sin of Usury
92. Superstition
93. Superstition Consisting in Undue Worship of the True God
94. Idolatry
95. Superstition in Divinations
96. Superstition in Observances
97. Temptation of God
98. Perjury
99. Sacrilege
100. Simony
105. Disobedience
107. Ingratitude
108. Vengeance
110. Vices Opposed to Truth, and First of Lying
111. Dissimulation and Hypocrisy
112. Boasting
113. Irony
115. Flattery
116. Quarreling
118. Vices Opposed to Liberality, and in the First Place, of Covetousness
119. Prodigality

Treatise on Fortitude and Temperance

125. Fear
126. Fearlessness
127. Daring
130. Presumption
131. Ambition
132. Vainglory
133. Pusillanimity
135. Meanness
138. Vices Opposed to Perseverance
        1. effeminacy
        2. pertinacity
142. Vices Opposed to Temperance
        1. insensibility
148. Gluttony
150. Drunkenness
153. Lust
154. Parts of Lust
        2. simple fornication
        6. seduction
        7. rape
        8. adultery
        9. incest
        10. sacrilege (in the sense of violating a person consecrated to God such as a priest, brother, or nun)
        11. unnatural vice (sodomy, masturbation, bestiality, etc.)
156. Incontinence
158. Anger
159. Cruelty
162. Pride
163. First Man's Sin
167. Curiosity

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  • It is a list, but not exactly an exhaustive list.
    – Destynation Y
    Commented May 12, 2018 at 14:54
  • @DestynationY See what I added. It's quite comprehensive.
    – Geremia
    Commented May 12, 2018 at 21:00
  • Not bad at all I must say.
    – Destynation Y
    Commented May 12, 2018 at 22:04

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