I don’t think we will make much progress in our faith, with converts until we deal with the truth and reality of our faith. Our priests today almost never speak of sin. No one wants to hear it. The great Viktor Frankl said that the lack of conscience formation conscience , knowledge even of the Ten Commandments is the most pressing issue of our times. He ought to have known , observing what Nazi’s were doing with their God-less minds. If Jesus came for so basic and existential a reason as to save us from our sins, why do our priests almost NEVER mention ‘sin’...? No exaggeration there!.. It has amazed me for years. A psychiatrist who worked with clerics in abuse scandal revealed that “they all thought like that.. do what you want, you don’t need any encyclical, express yourself, Pope ?, etc.
It’s high time our priests spoke out,, for Christianity is about salvatioon and that is inextrincably linked to sin. To repeat Pius Xii.. “the greatest sin of this century is the loss of the sense of sin”..
As religion has been replaced by pop psychology, we are inundated to free reign to feel good: drugs, sex of any kind with anyone anytime, babies aborted, money craze, broken families…
Isn’t time priest condemned evil and preached the full and true news of Christ,, the call to repentance for our sins!? It is high time. C’mon Father, pipe up!... .we need to hear in ‘out of season’!. .Quite frankly,otherwise, you’re wasting our time.