If sin prevails for a long time, it is bound to produce such conditions in the social order as make certain calamities unavoidable...

Nor is it always necessary that God send such chastisement for public sins, as He sent the deluge or the destruction of Jerusalem. 

There are many sins which contain in themselves the gigantic oak. 

If such sins prevail for a sufficiently long time, unchecked and unrepented, they are bound to produce such conditions in the social order as make certain calamities unavoidable.

Take, for example, the sin of godless education, that is, education of youth without religion. 

Where such a system has been adopted, the necessary results must be the following: After two or three generations the knowledge of God will disappear more or less completely among the people, the sense of right and wrong will be lost; good will be called evil and evil good; there will be no respect for the moral law; the depravity of youth will grow worse and worse; dishonesty and corruption will prevail in business, in the courts, in the legislature, and in the government itself; taxes will be misappropriated or disappear in the pockets of grafters; heavy expenses will be necessary to maintain the growing number of asylums, juvenile courts, reform schools and prisons; there will be no security to honor property and life; the relations between capital and labor will be strained to the breaking point, so that  violence and bloodshed will become inevitable; family life will be disrupted by adultery, divorce and free love; national rivalries, jealousies and hatreds, provoked by commercial greed, grow more and more intense, until they lead to international wars with their unspeakable misery to millions. 

Nations that sow the whirlwind must reap the storm.

(Father Remler, Why Must I Suffer?)