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, a drunkard who takes the pledge to abstain from intoxicants) donot sin against a vow when they break their resolutions. , when a starving man is taking food from onewho has plenty), or if domestic duty commands that he should give thething taken (e. wreck or by the fear of sin, or when a seducer marries only becausehe is threatened with prosecution unless he marries the girl whom heseduced. ess the kind of sin they intended (see 1497), eventhough their purpose failed, whether it was incipient fornication,sacrilege, sodomy, etc.

But impossibility excuses, as when the penitent has only ageneral recollection about a sin;(b) the number of the sins must be given exactly or, if this isimpossible, approximately. oon, if the spiritual good of a considerable number of thefaithful demands it (_Sacram Communionem_). Understanding, Gift of, 160 a; given to perfect theological virtues,808. (b) At the Time of the Engagement.