I would just like to point out:  The RCC hierarchy is fixated on sex.  Most mortal sins have to do with sex. Altho' Jesus said almost nothing about sex.  What is far more serious is the number of human beings in this world who are starving to death through no fault of their own.  We never hear about how buying a big home and a fancy car and taking multiple skiing trips/vacations in a year might be a mortal sin when children in our own cities are going hungry.  One of the reasons it took Dorothy Day so long to be canonized is that she had a child out of marriage (and if it weren't for Pope Frances' good mind and heart, she probably still wouldn't be canonized).  One of the reasons Thomas Merton will never be canonized is because he fathered a child out of wedlock when he was a young man and because he had a brief affair right before he died.  If a lay person commits a sexual sin, his/her whole life is defined by that sin.  If a parish priest commits one, he gets sheltered by his bishop.