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By Jesse Romero · Published Jul 18, 2017 · Updated Feb 27, 2026

Question? 

What is the fundamental problem with modern man?

Answer!

VATICAN CITY, MAY 14, 2004 (Zenit.org) - St John Paul II lamented the loss of the sense of sin in the world as he urged a group of U.S. bishops to promote the sacrament of penance…the Pope said that the "courage to face the crisis of the loss of the sense of sin, to which I alerted the whole Church early in my pontificate, must be addressed today with particular urgency." In his 1984 apostolic exhortation "Reconciliatio et Paenitentia," Saint Pope John Paul II warned that "the loss of the sense of sin is a form or fruit of the negation of God: not only of the atheist, but also of the secularist."