The Quarter Queen

Part Two No Saints and No Sinners

Part Two

No saints and No sinners

A man without sin counts himself not a saint but a fraud, and a saint who has sinned for which he has confessed considers himself forgiven. But of the man who does not confess his deepest sins? He must consider himself irrevocably and despairingly haunted.

—Antonio de Sedella, “Père Antoine,” from his sacred sermon “The Nature of Man and His Immortal Soul”