When we leave God out of our lives, the bishop said, it leads to a destruction of our inner balance. Or sex does, in its Niagara rush from our entertainment industry. Or drugs do. We are at the mercy of these wild and uncontrollable forces. And the unraveling continues.
Sin is the active principle of every division.
This is what undoes division. This is what brings us back to God, back to ourselves, and back to one another. The Church is founded upon forgiveness. The Church is the home of forgiveness. The Church is held together by forgiveness.