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As Adam sinned and brought sin into the world, we all are born sinners.

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Catholic AnswerThink of it like something you inherit from your parents. Our parents were created with original holiness and justice which they lost through the first sin. They no longer had that original holiness and justice to pass on to their children, so their children were conceived "in original sin", in other words: lacking original holiness and justice.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church:

389 The doctrine of original sin is, so to speak, the "reverse side" of the Good News that jesus is the Savior of all men, that all need salvaiton, and that salvation is offered to all through Christ. The Church, which has the mind of Christ, (Cf. 1 Cor 2:16) knows very well that we cannot tamper with the revelation of original sin without undermining the mystery of Christ.

418 As a result of original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers; subject to ignorance, suffering, and the domination of death; and inclined to sin. (this inclination is called "concupiscence."

419 "We therefore hold, with the Council of Trent, that original sin is transmitted with human nature, 'by propagation, not by imitation' and that it is . . . 'proper to each'" (Paul VI, Solemn Profession of Faith: Credo of the People of God

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