I. Freedom and Responsibility
Catechism number 1736
Every act directly willed is imputable to its author:
Thus the Lord asked Eve after
the sin in the garden: "What is this that you have done?"29
He asked Cain the same question.30 The prophet Nathan questioned David
in the same way after he committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and had him
murdered.31
An action can be indirectly voluntary when it results from negligence regarding
something one should have known or done: for example, an accident arising from
ignorance of traffic laws.