| For a start, it's hard to imagine a more venial form of corruption than merely speeding along someone's visa application. |
| Yet despite their magnitude, these sins are of the venial rather than the mortal variety. |
| It was a venial mistake on Hume's part to include a reference to the mind's propensity in what was supposed to be a definition of causality. |
| So does Michelle consider Tony's slip of the tongue and miraculous recovery of memory a venial or a mortal sin? |
| We say, on the contrary, that the papal pardons are not able to remove the very least of venial sins, so far as its guilt is concerned. |
| Confession had always rested on a clear distinction between mortal and venial sins. |
