“Where God is excluded from the public forum, the sense of offense against God — the true sense of sin — dissipates, just as when the absolute value of moral norms is relativized the categories of good or evil vanish, along with individual responsibility.”
The Holy Father made his observation today when addressing bishops from the Western Catholic Conference of Canada, who were making their five-yearly visit to the Vatican.
Benedict XVI continued: “When the need to seek forgiveness and the readiness to forgive are forgotten, in their place a disturbing culture of blame and litigiousness arises.”
Gdzie pragnienie i gotowość przebaczenia zostały zapomniane, tam ich miejsce zajęła kultura wzajemnego oskarżania i sądowych procesów.
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