"Modernity, with its founding fathers, such as Marx, Rousseau and Freud, has destroyed the reality of moral evil and the awareness of sin, considering sin a myth, wrapping it up in psychopathological considerations, and reducing it to a biological resultant. The assumptions of these new preachers still upset us today". This was stated by card. card. Paul Joseph Cordès, president of the Papal Council "Cor Unum", as he opened in Lourdes the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin to Bernadette Soubirous. (continued)
