Letters

A sense of sin

Henk Verhoeven

Contents - Oct 2005 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Health of Church and health of family connect - Michael Gilchrist Benedict XVI speaks out on the crisis of faith in Australia - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Books: The Incredible Da Vinci Code falsehoods exposed - Frank Mobbs Juventutem: Young Latin Mass Catholics attend World Youth Day - Fr Glen Tattersall Youth: The lasting impact of World Youth Day - Sannon Donahoo Society: The latest marriage statistics: implications - Zenit News Agency Dies Domini: Armidale Diocese promotes Sunday observance - Bishop Luc Matthys Conference: C.S. Lewis: defender of objective truth - Adam Glyn Cooper Culture: How the Catholic Church built Western civilisation - Thomas E. Woods Jr Priesthood: Christ's call to priestly celibacy - Fr Thaddeus Doyle Letters: Reverence? - P.R. Smith Letters: Blasphemy - Alan Onraet Letters: A sense of sin - Henk Verhoeven Letters: Contraception - Anne Lastman Letters: Watered-down faith - Paula Gartland Letters: A treasured priest: Fr William Ross - Tom King Letters: Anti-Christian media - Frank Bellet Letters: Sacrifice of the Mass - A. Bono Letters: New hymn lyrics for Come As You Are Books: Your Life is Worth Living: The Christian Philosophy of Life, by Fulton J. Sheen - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: What is Opus Dei?, by Dominique le Tourneau - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Books: A Beautiful Story to be Told: The Legion of Mary in Oceania 1932-2005 - Michael Gilchrist (reviewer) Events: Who's Afraid of Vatican II? Seminars October-December 2005 Books: More good reading from AD Books Reflection: What the early Church tells us about the celebration of Mass - Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM

One stated aim of the Eros Foundation is "to encourage a heightened understanding of the adult industry". A non-stated aim must surely be to discredit Christianity since the latter tries to inculcate a sense of sin.

A wide awareness of the reality of sin would seriously undermine the sale of porn, the prostitution business, and other profitable activities the Foundation concerns itself with. Sin is seen as a counterproductive concept which has to be extirpated from society.

Anti-Christian bigots must have been smacking their lips when a letter writer to The Sydney Morning Herald recalled an Eros spokesman's claim that there was a 250 per cent increase in Canberra's sex industry during the 1994 World Council of Churches conference.

Full marks for yet another anti-Christian bigot joke, although some people will take any remark that emanates from the mouths of Eros spokesmen as gospel.

HENK VERHOEVEN
Beacon Hill, NSW

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 18 No 9 (October 2005), p. 14