The Catholic Way

"In the two addresses, two world-views are presented: in the one, the “good people” among us, empathy their only motive, must be in a constant state of mobilization, to compel everyone else to be the good persons they are; in the other, all of us are caught in a drama, as sin is within each of us, threatening to defeat us, for which we need God’s help. Mercy and forgiveness? They have a role only in the second. “We cannot wallow in the tragedy of our civilization, our weakness, and sin,” John Paul II said in conclusion, “We must stay always faithful to another cry: ‘Where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,’ [Rom 5:20].”