Fr. Roberto Pasolini, the Preacher of the Papal Household, gives his first Lenten meditation, with Pope Leo XIV in attendance, reflecting on the importance of humility as part of our ongoing conversion. You can read the Vatican News summary HERE.
But what the Franciscan Padre said about sin seems to correct Pope Francis. Tell me what you think. Fr. Roberto’s brief description of sin and what it isn’t is very good and orthodox.
Recognizing sin
Conversion is connected to "the depth of the furrow that sin has etched in us," the Capuchin friar explained, but sin is a word that today seems to have disappeared.
"In the collective consciousness – and sometimes even in the life of the Church – everything is explained as fragility, wound, limitation, conditioning. When sin is still mentioned, it is often reduced to a small mistake or weakness." "If every sin becomes just a symptom," he pointed out, we risk losing something essential: "the greatness of human freedom and its responsibility."
If there is no longer the possibility of true evil, we cannot believe in the possibility of true good. If sin disappears, holiness too becomes an abstract and incomprehensible destiny.
In sin, man recognizes that "his freedom is real, and that with it he can build or destroy: himself, others, the world." A "deep healing" is therefore necessary to recover a relationship with God—repeatedly choosing to live in love and freedom, even enduring hardships that are not "sterile" but are expressions of "fidelity of those who have already glimpsed the meaning and value of what they are living".
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Two questions: First, is there a collective consciousness? Second, does man have the ability to actually destroy more than himself? Or are these illusions caused by vanity? (I guess i had three questions. 🤷♂️)
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