Day 294: Homicide (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Continuing our examination of the fifth commandment, we look at various ways in which one may sin against this commandment as it relates to homicide. The Catechism addresses three categories of homicide: direct and intentional killing, indirectly killing, and unintentionally killing. Fr. Mike explores this grave topic with resonating examples and explains the varying degrees of moral culpability. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2268-2269.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a year podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down |
| 0:13.4 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.5 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:20.8 | discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:24.7 | This is Day 294. We are reading two paragraphs, paragraph 2268, paragraph 2269. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download |
| 0:40.3 | your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI, and you can |
| 0:45.1 | click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today, as I |
| 0:49.1 | said, it's a 294. We are reading paragraphs 2268 and 2269. This is a subsection on intentional homicide yesterday. |
| 0:57.7 | We talked about legitimate self-defense. When is self-defense allowed? When is it permissible? |
| 1:02.4 | When is it a duty to defend either oneself or one's family, one's community, etc.? |
| 1:07.2 | We also looked at capital punishment and the church is teaching with regard to that. |
| 1:11.6 | Today we have two paragraphs, intentional homicide. Under the category of homicide, there are a number |
| 1:17.7 | of different degrees. It's all serious, obviously. Intentional homicide is always serious as it says |
| 1:24.6 | in paragraph 2268. The Fifth commandment forbids direct and intentional killing |
| 1:28.4 | as gravely sinful and so we're talking about that but there's also things like infanticide which is |
| 1:33.0 | killing of infants there's fratricide killing one's own sibling there's a parricide killing one's |
| 1:38.5 | own parent and the murder of a spouse those are especially grave crimes by reason of their natural |
| 1:43.0 | bonds so we'll look at that a little |
| 1:44.3 | bit more closely too, as well as paragraph 2269, which forbids indirectly, doing something |
| 1:50.5 | that indirectly brings about a person's death, but that still has some kind of intention behind it, |
| 1:55.1 | and unintentional killing, which is not morally imputable unless there is some degree of culpability |
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