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Article: The gift of fear.(teaching religion and fear of God to criminals)
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- Catholic Insight
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- January 1, 2007
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One day I recognized a police officer who often visited the high school at which I taught for many years. I immediately asked him how a particular student of mine was doing; for I knew that it was very likely that this officer would have had contact with him for years after he'd left our school, which was only a month or two into his first year. And of course, the officer only shook his head in disgust after I mentioned his name; my former student turned out to be the career criminal we all expected him to be.
What struck me about this student was that he seemed to have absolutely no fear of God. His behaviour during Mass was bizarre, to say the least. During the ...