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Fornication. Formal ingratitude consists in contempt for the benefit or thebenefactor, as when the person favored disdains --(a) Thedivine law requires the power of Orders, for only priests wereappointed by Christ as the ministers of Penance, (b) The natural lawrequ Betrothal or Engagement.

, when the marriage will bringgreat sorrow or disgrace on parents), or when they promise to marry ina sinful way (e. (b) The Person to Whom Restitution Is to Be Made. This form ofsuperstition is like divination by omens; the difference is that inusing omens one chiefly seeks f Gluttony, 269; sin opposed to abstemiousness, 2470 b; ways ofcommitting gluttony, 2471; sinfulness of gluttony, 2472 a; gluttony ascapital sin, 2473 11.