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BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

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The Pope reminds us
that sin is the absence of love:
An antidote to contemporary moralism

Translated from

December 17, 2009


There was a time when the idea of sin would have made people smile as at some vestige of the past. But it's different today.

In the era of private permissiveness which is transformed in public into a witch hunt avid for trials - institutional, popular or mediatic - we realize that the idea of evil is a serious matter.

Even the newspapers took note of the words pronounced by Benedict XVI in his annual discourse on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, in which the Pope used a passage from St. Paul as his theme: "Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more (Rom 5.20).

In the Christian concept of sin, evil is not simply the transgression of a rule, but it must be understood in terms of man's relationship to God - it is the absence of love on the part of man.

Contemporary moralism - which has a purely horizontal perspective - has reduced evil to transgression of principles, making respect for rules its ultimate criterion for distinguishing good from bacd.

But for the Christian, sin is not judged by a tribulnal, more or less public, but by God who loves the sinner and is quick to grant him redemption.

This is what gives Papa Ratzinger the strength to look at problems squarely without fear, as he has again shown in recent days regarding the involvement of some Irish priests and bishops in Ireland's child abuse scandals.

To call evil sin is the way Benedict XVI indicates in order to emerge from dissatisfaction with a moralism that is restricted to punishments and condemnation.

To understand sin as an absence or deficiency of love means to be aware of that which can truly heal it.


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