Sunday, December 30, 2012
400. What are structures of sin?
(Comp 400) Structures of sin are social situations or institutions that are
contrary to the divine law. They are the expression and effect of personal
sins.
“In brief”
(CCC 1869) Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and
causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give
rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine
goodness..
To deepen and
explain
(CCC 1869) Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and
causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give
rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine
goodness. "Structures of sin" are the expression and effect of
personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an
analogous sense, they constitute a "social sin" (John Paul II, RP
16).
Reflection
(CCC 1887) The inversion of means and ends (Cf. CA 41),
which results in giving the value of ultimate end to what is only a means for
attaining it, or in viewing persons as mere means to that end, engenders unjust
structures which "make Christian conduct in keeping with the commandments
of the divine Law-giver difficult and almost impossible" (Pius XII,
Address at Pentecost, June 1, 1941). (CCC 408) The consequences of original sin
and of all men's personal sins put the world as a whole in the sinful condition
aptly described in St. John's expression, "the sin of the world" (Jn
1:29). This expression can also refer to the negative influence exerted on
people by communal situations and social structures that are the fruit of men's
sins (Cf. John Paul II, RP 16).
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