
Although the exact formulation escapes me, there is a line in an essay by Romano Guardini that I’ve never forgotten, in which he says that, at the end of the day, there can be no moral difference in the sight of God between the sin of Cain, who killed his brother, and the sin of Pilate, who failed to prevent the killing of his brother. The brother in question, of course, whom he might have saved…

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