Divine Mercy For Our Times

The heartfelt and determined invitation which was already extended by my predecessor in preparation for the 1975 Holy Year(125) is also vali...

The church in fact uses the method of dialogue in order the better to lead people-both those who through baptism and the profession of faith...

CHAPTER ONE THE PROMOTION OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION: WAYS AND MEANS 24. In order to promote penance and reconciliation, the church ...

I do not need to repeat what I have already said about the importance of this "ministry of reconciliation,"(119) and of the pastor...

PART THREE THE PASTORAL MINISTRY OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION Promoting Penance and Reconciliation 23. To evoke conversion and penance...

The Effort of the Christian 21. But there is another aspect to the mysterium pietatis: The loving kindness of God toward the Christian mu...

It Is Christ Himself 20. It is profoundly significant that when Paul presents this mysterium pietatis he simply transcribes, without mak...

CHAPTER II "MYSTERIUM PIETATIS" 19. In order to understand sin we have had to direct our attention to its nature as made known ...

The loss of the sense of sin is thus a form or consequence of the denial of God: not only in the form of atheism but also in the form of sec...

Another reason for the disappearance of the sense of sin in contemporary society is to be found in the errors made in evaluating certain fin...

The Loss of the Sense of Sin 18. Over the course of generations, the Christian mind has gained from the Gospel as it is read in the eccl...

With the whole tradition of the church, we call mortal sin the act by which man freely and consciously rejects God, his law, the covenant o...

Furthermore, when sin is considered from the point of view of the punishment it merits, for St. Thomas and other doctors mortal sin is the s...

Here of course it is a question of external radical manifestations: rejection of God, rejection of his grace and therefore opposition to th...

Mortal and Venial 17. But here we come to a further dimension in the mystery of sin, one on which the human mind has never ceased to ponder...