3. From the Council of Trent, concerning Original Sin.
(a) Adam, by his transgression, was wholly changed for the worse, both in body and soul. This transgression proved injurious not only to Adam but to his offspring. It not only transmitted death and bodily sufferings to the whole human race, but also sin which is the death of the soul: Sess. V, 1, 2. (b) This sin of Adam, which in origin was a single transgression, but which has been transmitted by propagation, not by imitation, is implanted in everyone as his own, and cannot be removed by any other remedy than the Merit of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only Saviour, Who has reconciled us to God by His blood, being made for us righteousness, sanctification and redemption: Sess. V, 3. (c) By Adam's transgression all men lost their innocence and became unclean, and by nature children of wrath: Sess. VI, chap. 1.