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• Captain Earmark twice sought millions in pork for nonprofit chaired by top fundraiser posted at 4: 50 pm on September 11, 2008 by Allahpundit isn't this a mortal sin, given the nature of the project - a new projector for the city planetarium - it hardly qualifies as a venial one. —  THE IRATE NATION
• I think you mean that it is a venial (= forgivable) one. —  THE IRATE NATION
• To design a mechanism with the assumption that it needs significant manual configuration is at least a venial, if not mortal, sin. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• (How serious or public the sins must be and whether this obligation is of Divine Right rather than ecclesiastical precept for all non-venial sins is not universally agreed among Catholic theologians.) —  The Continuum
• The landlord faltered as he replied to both the Bravi at once Certainly, my lords, certainly--I will have inquiries made--I will do my best--it was really not my fault It may not have been your intention, but it was, in a measure, your fault,' answered Trombin, allowing his expression to relax, 'though it may have been only a fault of omission, and therefore venial, which is to say, pardonable, Master Landlord, in proportion to the gravity of the consequences that may attend it. —  Stradella

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