CCC 400

The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.²⁸² Cf. Gen 3:7-16. Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.²⁸³ Cf. Gen 3:17, 19. Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay".²⁸⁴ Rom 8:21. Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will "return to the ground",²⁸⁵ Gen 3:19; cf. 2:17. for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.²⁸⁶ Cf. Rom 5:12.