A lot of those "minor" sins come in handy when you run a billion dollar corporation.

It's a minor sin to obtain a major scoop - and a reporter's first duty is to get the story.

The child was extravagant punishment for a sin so minor she didn't even know if she had committed it.

But this is a minor sin and eminently forgivable.

If God forgives only minor sins, there's no hope for any of us.

I would have thought such a thing a rather minor sin compared to your much greater ones.

Making family decisions without consulting a community priest of Hiatea is considered a minor sin by the faithful.

A minor sin indeed, but one against which you must struggle.

Lying to an archbishop is a sin - only a very minor sin, mind, for everyone does it.

It was as if I was 12 years old again and had committed one of the many minor sins that my parents never heard about.