Why don't we hear about sin at mass anymore?

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Studies show the vast majority Catholics are ignorant of basic Church teaching. Is there anything lay people can do about this?
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Umm… not go to Masses where all you hear is “be nice, don’t worry and just do good”? 😉
 
Psst… priests who were in seminary in the 60’s and 70’s are now in their 70s, right? That means that most of them are retired. I’m not certain, then, that I’d say that “most priests are in their 70s.” 😉

I guess, then, that if there were more parents who encouraged their sons to enter seminary and become priests, then there would be a smaller percentage of “really terrible priests”, eh? 😉

Yikes! No. NO. NO!!!

Catechesis starts in the domestic church – that is, the home! If parents ignore their responsibilities to teach their children in the faith, or allow one-hour-per-week CCD programs to be the sole source of catechesis and Christian example for their children, then we deserve what we get: children who do not know the value or content of the faith!
 
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Or, you get kids raising themselves in the faith, blindly wandering around and trying to understand the faith that they love but cannot hope to independently comprehend.
 
Very true. You hear of those that derisively call faithful Catholics ‘pray, pay and obey’ Catholics when in actuality we are commanded to do all three in Scripture.
 
The poorly educated in the faith need the most teaching from the homilies.
 
Sin has been phased out. Didn’t you hear? I suggest you keep better abreast of church developments in the future.
 
I go to ordinary form post Vat 11 Mass.

Sin, the devil, hell and confession are always in homilies.

There’s not much difference in the % of this compared with my pre Vat 11 days.
 
In our Parish, we have a Deacon who gave his life story about rebelling as a Catholic youth, leaving the Church, and how he came back. He does discuss Hell, abortion, euthanasia and sin, always followed by God’s love and the need for obedience. It is not like fire and brimstone, but really gets to the heart of a Merciful Father. Very often at the end, you could hear a pin drop.
 
Should the laity take the effort to learn? Why does the priest have to teach everyone what they should already know?
 
I agree there should be a balance but people need to have a good grasp of God’s mercy first and foremost. It wouldn’t be right, for example, to only be teaching hell and damnation without making people aware of the love of God. After all, Scripture tells us that Mercy triumphs over Judgement, and Love covers a multitude of sin.
 
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