Monday, 29th Wk: "Through one man sin entered the world"

and through sin, death,
and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.

-- Rom 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21

All men are implicated in Adam's sin, as St. Paul affirms: "By one man's disobedience many (that is, all men) were made sinners": "sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned." The Apostle contrasts the universality of sin and death with the universality of salvation in Christ. "Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men."

-- CCC 402