THE LOST SENSE OF SIN

The Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of sin as follows:

Sin is an offence against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is a failure in genuine love for God and neighbour caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods.... It has been defined [by St Augustine] as "an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law."

Sin is an offence against God.... Sin sets itself against God's love for us and turns our hearts away from it. Like the first sin, it is disobedience, a revolt against God through the will to become "like gods," knowing and determining good and evil. Sin is thus "love of oneself even to the contempt of God." 

Jesus said Sinners are slaves.

Pope Benedict said- "In today’s world the sense of sin has been lost. However as the sense of sin decreases the sense of guilt increases. People therefore try to dominate the other to give themselves a sense of freedom."

Hence the attitudes in today’s secular world- ‘I’ve got him’, I’ve want him, I’ve lost him, I don’t want him- always trying to dominate the other. And it doesn’t matter how they go about it. More often than not it involves taking away or attempting to take away ones dignity