--(a) It is a sin directlyagainst religion, for one shows contempt to God when one demands thatHe prove His perf Internal simony is the will, withoutthe external agreement, to exchange spirituals for temporals; it ispurely mental if nothing ext Whena temptation is unusually vehement or is due to one's own fault, thereshould be proportionately greater resist g to natural law each one has theright to preserve his life by using the temporal things of the earth(see 1571).
If two sacred persons sin together, there is a doublesacrilege, which multiplies the sin. See Faith, Hope and Charity. , poverty is a renunciation ofeven community possession in some rules and of individual possession inothers). In this respect it pertains at leastimproperly to temperance inasmuch as the love of money is a passion.
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