The Infinite One alone can know how much of our sin is chargeable to us, and how much to our brothers or our fathers.

We all participate in one another's sins.

There is a community of responsibility attaching to every misdeed.

No human since Adam--nay, nor Adam himself--ever sinned entirely to himself.

And so I never am called upon to contemplate a crime or a criminal but I feel my conscience pointing at me as one of the accessories." "In a word," said Evariste Varrillat, the physician, "you think we are partly to blame for the omission of many of your Paternosters, eh ?" Father Jerome smiled.
"No; a man cannot plead so in his own defence; our first father tried that, but the plea was not allowed.