Day 294: Homicide

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 21 October 2023

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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 Ascension.
0:17.0	In 365 days, we will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:21.7	and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 294. We are reading
0:27.2	two paragraphs, paragraph 226-8, paragraph 226-9. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of
0:33.6	the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any
0:37.4	recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism
0:41.1	in a Year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y, and you can click follow or
0:45.5	subscribe to your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today, as I said,
0:49.2	it's day 294. We are reading paragraphs 226-8 and 226-9. This is a subsection on intentional
0:56.5	homicide. Yesterday, we talked about legitimate self-defense. When is self-defense allowed? When
1:01.6	is it permissible? When is it a duty to defend either oneself or one's family, one's community,
1:06.7	etc? We also looked at capital punishment and the church is teaching with regard to that. Today,
1:12.1	we have two paragraphs, intentional homicide. Under the category of homicide, there are a number of
1:17.8	different degrees. It's all serious. Obviously, intentional homicide is always serious as it says
1:24.7	in paragraph 226-8. The Fifth Commandment forbids it to direct an intentional killing as gravely
1:28.9	sinful, and so we're talking about that. But there's also things like infanticide, which is killing
1:33.4	of infants. There's fratricide killing one's own sibling. There's parasite killing one's own
1:38.6	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 bit more closely too, as well as paragraph 226-9,
1:47.6	which forbids indirectly doing something that indirectly brings about a person's death,
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