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That God does not intervene, at least in most cases.
And why is that a problem?
BTW, it is pretty serious because it does not happen only in high school games. It happens in wars.
I guess it’s “serious” if you think that God really does force the outcomes of wars. Do you?
Let’s see what the Catholic Theology has to say about it:
Catholic theology, properly speaking, comes from the magisterium, not an encyclopedia, let alone an out-of-date encyclopedia. 😉
Catholic Encyclopedia : Evil
“But we cannot say without denying the Divine omnipotence, that another equally perfect universe could not be created in which evil would have no place.”

As we see above @Gorgias, God could create this world that we never commit even a single act of sin.
Note that this isn’t a statement of the magisterium – or even of Aquinas! – but rather, merely of the editorial staff of the encyclopedia. Hardly authoritative.
CCC 310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it?
With infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world in a state of journeying towards its ultimate perfection, 314 through the dramas of evil and sin. – God created the dramas of evil and sin for our benefit.
More quote mining and misdirection:
310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it? With infinite power God could always create something better. But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world “in a state of journeying” towards its ultimate perfection. … With physical good there exists also physical evil as long as creation has not reached perfection.

311 Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the world. God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil. He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it.

314 We firmly believe that God is master of the world and of its history. But the ways of his providence are often unknown to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God “face to face”, will we fully know the ways by which - even through the dramas of evil and sin - God has guided his creation to that definitive sabbath rest for which he created heaven and earth.
Let’s review:
  • you cut off #310.
  • you skip #311, which does irreparable damage to your assertions
  • you graft in a mere phrase of #314
  • you add a personal comment, found nowhere in the Catechism, about “evil and sin” being “for our benefit”
I think we’re done here. Your approach is disappointing (and fraught with error).
 
Unfortunately 3200 characters permits only to post the spirit of the teachings.
I don’t force anyone to read or to believe what is in my posts.
There are readers who are like my posts, just as I like many other posts and I learn from them more and more.
Catholic Theology is the best, still need God’s revelation to understand it.

God bless
 
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Unfortunately 3200 characters permits only to post the spirit of the teachings.
Unfortunately, it seems to permit you to present one side of the story, but eliminate the quotes that contradict your assertions. Yet, I can quote them in their entirety. Funny, that… eh?
There are readers who are like my posts
The question isn’t whether they’re liked, but whether they’re accurate and true.
 
As follows, Catholic Theology is the best and it is NOT TWO-SIDED.

Eph.1:11; … according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.
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God has his plan, He designed every event of it, He decreed it, He preordained it and He is working on the completion of the Universe, with us He completes it.

We are all God’s co-workers/ His builders to complete the work of His creation.

God designed EVERY EVENT of the building work.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Free Will explains;

God is the author of all causes and effects, but is not the author of sin, because an action ceases to be sin if God wills it to happen. Still God is the cause of sin.
God’s omnipotent providence exercises a complete and perfect control over all events that happen, or will happen, in the universe.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Divine Providence explains;

His wisdom He so orders all events within the universe that the end for which it was created may be realized.

God preserves the universe in being; He acts in and with every creature in each and all its activities.

He directs all, even evil and sin itself, to the final end for which the universe was created.

Evil He converts into good (Genesis 1:20; cf. Psalm 90:10); and suffering He uses as an instrument whereby to train men up as a father traineth up his children (Deuteronomy 8:1-6; Psalm 65:2-10;

Evil, therefore, ministers to God’s design (St. Gregory the Great, op. cit., VI, xxxii in “P.L.”,

That end is that all creatures should manifest the glory of God, and thereby attaining to the full development of his nature and to eternal happiness in God.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12510a.htm
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CCC 308 The truth that God is at work in all the actions of his creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator. God is the first cause who operates in and through secondary causes: “For God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” Far from diminishing the creature’s dignity, this truth enhances it. Drawn from nothingness by God’s power, wisdom and goodness, it can do nothing if it is cut off from its origin, for “without a Creator the creature vanishes.” Still less can a creature attain its ultimate end without the help of God’s grace.
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CCC 307 To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of “subduing” the earth and having dominion over it. God thus enables men to be intelligent and free causes in order to complete the work of creation, to perfect its harmony for their own good and that of their neighbors. Though often unconscious collaborators with God’s will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine plan by their actions, their prayers and their sufferings. They then fully become "God’s fellow workers" and co-workers for his kingdom.
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Nothing is outside God’s creating, sustaining and governing will.

There is a supernatural intervention of God in the faculties of the soul, which precedes the free act of the will, (De fide dogma).
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God bless
 
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