I was just reading the folowing again:
No wonder the laity has no idea of what is sin.
"As one priest, Father Robert Altier, of St. Agnes Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, says, people don't believe in chastisement "because people don't want to deal with sin."
"The loss of the sense of sin is one of the great tragedies of our time," says Father Altier, who is also a third-order Carmelite. "They don't want to deal with the idea that God would allow any kind of purification. We focus on His mercy so much that we forget His justice. And some of it -- wars as well as storms -- we are doing to ourselves. Nature reflects the chaos in the spiritual order. You see that right from the Garden of Eden. There was peace until they sinned, and that continues. The chaos that we see -- the storms and tsunamis -- continue to get more intense and closer together and it is because sin is getting worse. I have been speaking about this since the early 1980s, but after 9/11, I said, 'now the birth pangs have begun.' We can't keep killing babies and violating human dignity and think that nothing is going to happen to us. We're doing it to ourselves. It's a natural consequence of what we're doing."
**We can't keep killing babies and violating human dignity and think that nothing is going to happen to us. We're doing it to ourselves. It's a natural consequence of what we're doing**
Father Altier is right on the money, isn't he?