We can take this one step further and say...."how can there be repentance if we have lost the sense of sin?"
Those who insist on calling sin what it is continue to be demonized and vilified within the Church with terms such as "hard-hearted", "rigid" and "Pharisaical" but this only serves to highlight the difference between true mercy and the false mercy which is currently being pushed on us. Without a knowledge of sin and a sense of sin, there can be no repentance and therefore no mercy.
So says Cardinal Sarah.
What does the Bible say? “All who call upon the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:3).
No added works or “continuing sacrifice” required. Jesus has done it all. “It is finished.”
Amen...plus we are called “anti-woman” because we don’t think they should KILL THIER OWN CHILDREN! Black is white, good is bad, up is down.
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
I find no such condition when I read scripture but I am concerned to oppose that view when it comes from the Catholic World Report.
In a nutshell, it is my understanding that, forgiveness is mine and I didn’t have to earn or work for it. Forgiveness is for the entire world.
Repentance occurs when I receive the forgiveness on faith.