Sunday, February 3, 2019

“One must always distinguish between an abnormal manifestation of guilt and guilt itself.  For example, a person given to excessive washing of hands is manifesting an abnormal sense of guilt, but this does not alter the fact that behind this particular complex there may be a very real reason for a sense of guilt.  A denial of guilt is a denial of responsibility, and a denial of responsibility is a denial of freedom.  Illustrating the attitude of those who insist on having rights but no duties, freedom but no responsibility, praise but no blame, is a cartoon in which a psychoanalyst is pictured telling a mother: Yes, your boy is stubborn, cruel, perverted, a kleptomaniac, has criminal tendencies – but bad, no.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Life is Worth Living)

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