Sin has become a suppressed subjects but everywhere ...it has nonetheless remained real.

People today know of no standard; to be sure, they do not want to know of any because they see standards as a threat to their freedom. ...

Thus sin has become a suppressed subejct, but everywhere we can see that although it is suppressed, it has nonetheless remained real. What is remarkable to me is the aggressiveness, always on the verge of pouncing, which we experience openly in our society — the lurking readiness to demean the other person, th hold others guilty whenever misfortune occurs to them, to accuse society, and to want to change the world by violence.

Cardinal Ratzinger, In the Beginning ...

This was a superb, though provoking book and it should have been on my Best of 2025 list. However, you can enjoy this bit in the fullness of the times in which we live. It was written in 1995 and, sadly, seems even more applicable now than then.