Posted on 03/10/2008 10:55:06 AM PDT by Reeses
Vatican City (AHN) - In an attempt to give moral and ethical behavior more significance to current times, the Vatican has recently announced seven new deadly sins, published in an issue of the L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper.
The revision of the list comes after 1,500 years, with Vatican officials explaining that the new items address a global "secular" society bent on the concerns in the age of globalization. The sins are said to be an address to the "decreasing sense of sin" in the modern world.
"The sins of today have a social resonance as well as an individual one," said Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary. "In effect, it is more important than ever to pay attention to your sins."
Mgr Girotti named the new mortal sins to be (1)genetic modification; (2) human experimentations, (3) polluting the environment; (4) social injustice; (5) causing poverty; (6) financial gluttony; and (7) taking drugs.
The sins were added, according to the Telegraph, to the original seven, which Mgr Girotti described has having "rather individualistic dimenion(s)."
Mgr Girotti explained that numbers have shown that less Catholics in Italy go to confession, with 60 percent no longer participating in what is considered one of the most important sacraments.
In remedying this, he acknowledged that priests must also consider new sins, brought about by changes in the global community.
"You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor's wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out mortally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos," the Times quoted Mgr Girotti.
Girotti also recognized the growing problems of abortion, pedophilia, and a widespread habit of "making do without God."
"Those who trust in themselves and in their own merits are, as it were, blinded by their own 'I', and their hearts harden in sin," said Girotti.
How does one cause poverty, exactly?
Uh ... these aren't "replacements" of the 7 deadly sins we already know about.
When you do not pay for illegal aliens free services you are causing poverty!!
How does anyone other than government leaders cause poverty? Cool, now my financial situation isn’t my fault!
Outside of some in the US, where are the poor minorities that have all those things you listed?
The original 10 commandments were sufficient.
The 7 deadly are manifestations of it.
This new bunch is BS.
How does something become a mortal sin today, but was OK yesterday?
Mgr Girotti named the new mortal sins to be (1)genetic modification; (2) human experimentations, (3) polluting the environment; (4) social injustice; (5) causing poverty; (6) financial gluttony; and (7) taking drugs.
The sins were added, according to the Telegraph, to the original seven, which Mgr Girotti described has having "rather individualistic dimenion(s)."
Because we're apparently not responsible for our own lives anymore, but for the actions of others.
Modern liberals and Marxists have an excellent track record of doing exactly that.
Well, the sequel to the movie Se7en is sure going to suck.
by convincing people that GOD wants you to send you money to an already ostentatious church to save your soul
I want to be a huge sinner!
Mgr Girotti named the new mortal sins to be (1)genetic modification; (2) human experimentations, (3) polluting the environment; (4) social injustice; (5) causing poverty; (6) financial gluttony; and (7) taking drugs.
Celebrating "gay pride" with a flesh feast and public displays of BDSM with murals mocking the Last Supper are apparently still ok.
Every time I try to complete them all, they keep moving the goal posts on me.
“How does one cause poverty, exactly?”
The corrupt leaders of impoverished African nations seem to have that one down.
Oh, good grief, I was having troubles with the first 7 deadly sins, and now they've added 7 more?!!
Wouldn’t you know it? Just when I finally get the old ones licked, along comes a whole new set!....................
Msgr = Monsignor
Is it a sin to mis-abbreviate?
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