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Drugs, pollution, genetic manipulation are now included
Update announced in Vatican daily, “L’Osservatore Romano”
Sinners risk burning in hell unless absolved through confession and penitence
Recent survey finds 60 percent of Italian Catholics don’t go to confession
ROME, Italy (AP) – A Vatican official has listed drugs, pollution and genetic manipulations as well as social and economic injustices as new areas of sinful behavior.
Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti said in an interview published on Sunday by the Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, that known sins increasingly manifest themselves as behavior that damages society as a whole.
Girotti, who heads the Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican body that issues decisions on matters of conscience and grants absolutions told the paper that whilst sin used to concern the individual mostly, today it had a mainly a social resonance, due to the phenomenon of globalization.
[quote=“Rascal”]-- A Vatican official has listed drugs, pollution and genetic manipulations as well as social and economic injustices as new areas of sinful behavior.
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oh well, looks like i’m forked now. guess i may as well start doing drugs too.
Story Highlights[/b]
Drugs, pollution, genetic manipulation are now included
Update announced in Vatican daily, “L’Osservatore Romano”
Sinners risk burning in hell unless absolved through confession and penitence
Recent survey finds 60 percent of Italian Catholics don’t go to confession
ROME, Italy (AP) – A Vatican official has listed drugs, pollution and genetic manipulations as well as social and economic injustices as new areas of sinful behavior.
Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti said in an interview published on Sunday by the Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, that known sins increasingly manifest themselves as behavior that damages society as a whole.
Girotti, who heads the Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican body that issues decisions on matters of conscience and grants absolutions told the paper that whilst sin used to concern the individual mostly, today it had a mainly a social resonance, due to the phenomenon of globalization.
I still don’t get how the pope hates abortion yet at the same time opposes contraception, whose use reduces the need for abortion.
They should strike these two from the list, and replace them with proscriptions on spamming and virus writing if they truly want to get with the times.
[quote=“Chris”]I still don’t get how the Pope hates abortion yet at the same time opposes contraception, whose use reduces the need for abortion.
They should strike these two from the list, and replace them with proscriptions on spamming and virus writing if they truly want to get with the times.[/quote]
Sex is for procreation and to a lesser degree solidifying the bonds between a married man and woman. That’s church teaching. Contraception allows for sex that is purely for pleasure and we all know where that leads.
Of course the church does allow married couples to use the rhythm method. Just not un-natural contraceptive methods.
I thihk this new list show not only how out of touch with reality the vatican is, but how out of touch with traditional Christian values. What might be sinful about the items or activities in this new list is an essence of greed or glutenoy, or the lustfulness, or of not holding God above all–worshiping the creation above the creator. The same stuff covered in the origional list. Not exactly like the origional list of 10 “Shalt Nots” ment that there were only 10 possible ways to sin before.
