Yesterday, as I watched CNN, I saw a news snippet on The Vatican
adding on another seven modern sins to the original list of
seven.
And then I noticed our very own Pinky Bear making a comment
about that in the Jive Pad.
For those of you who are still in the dark, be enlightened :
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.
Catholic teaching distinguishes between lesser, so-called venial
sins, and mortal sins.
When asked to list the new areas of sinful behavior, Girotti
denounced "certain violations
of the fundamental rights of human nature through experiments,
genetic manipulations."
He also mentioned drugs,
which weaken the mind and obscure intelligence; pollution; as well
as the widening social and economic differences between the rich
and the poor that "cause an unbearable social
injustice."
Girotti said the Catholic Church continued
to be concerned by other sinful acts, including abortion and
pedophilia.
He said Church authorities had reacted with rigorous measures to
child abuse scandals within the clergy, but he also claimed that
the issue had been excessively emphasized by the media.
His comments came at the end of a week-long Vatican conference
on confession.
A recent survey said that 60 percent of Italian Catholics do not
go to confession.
Traditionally the Catholic church has had a list of seven deadly sins, that of lust,
gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride
established by Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century.
The terms entered the popular vocabulary after the publication
of Dante's "Divine Comedy."
The deadly sins are in contrast with venial sins - relatively
minor sins that can be forgiven.
A person that commits a mortal sin risks burning in hell unless
absolved through confession and penitence.
Now the Vatican says it is time to modernize the list to fit a
global world.
On hearing the Girotti's suggestion, some priests thought it was
a good idea.
Father Antonio Pelayo, a Spanish priest and Vatican expert noted
that it is time for both sinners and confessors to get over their
obsession with sex and think about other ways humans hurt each
other in the world in which they live.
"There are many other sins that are perhaps much more grave that
don't have anything to do with sex - that have to do with life,
that have to do with the environment, that have to do with
justice," he told AP Television.
Father Greg Apparcel, a local priest said that the Pope may have
been talking About this aspect of sin as a response to the recent
"Italian confession" survey.
Apparcel also hinted that the announcement may have a wider
agenda ahead of the Holy Father's trip to the United States and his
speech to the United Nations.
"There is some sound going around that perhaps he is going to
speak about ecology and environment, and if he does, this is kind
of preparation for that," he said.
Extracted from :
CNN.com.
Now, if you dare, do this quiz to determine which of your sins
will put you in hell!! 
As you can see from my results, I won't be having a ball in my
afterlife. 
Greed : Medium
Gluttony : High
Wrath : High
Sloth : High
Envy : Medium
Lust : Medium
Pride : Medium
The Seven Deadly
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