For the first time I am hearing a pope speak a language I understand and which rings true.  Beginning with my earlier post titled “Cleansing of the Temple” where he severely chastised errant priests, the pope goes on now to make another awesome statement saying: “When you lose the sense of sin, you lose the sense of the Kingdom of God” quoted from the Vatican Insider dated 31^st Jan, 2014. An interesting article and worth reading.  Moreover, The Pope confesses that even he himself can fall into the trap of losing this sense of sin. But a commitment to daily prayer, he stresses, can counter the injustices perpetrated out of human pride and stop so many from falling victim to “Christian mediocrity” and our “unrecognized sins.” (Vatican Radio-31.1.2014).  This is a far cry from any infallible positions overstated in the past and closer to the pope being a truer human being.  This is the kind of human being that the layperson can relate to. Continue reading →