He began to ponder “the mystery of the evil that good people do.” As an example he writes of a woman “who ran the hacienda near San Ramon, worried to tears about not being able to go to Communion but unworried about the children who were dying on her farm.”23 This shows how easily an individual can focus on her own moral purity while ignoring larger claims on her conscience. This is an aspect of the gravity of Sin that all Christians need to ponder.24
