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Vatican updates its thou-shalt-not list
Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 (CDT) by Thoth
 In olden days, the deadly sins included lust, gluttony and greed. Now, the Catholic Church says pollution, mind-damaging drugs and genetic experiments are on its updated thou-shalt-not list. Also receiving fresh attention by the Vatican was social injustice, along the lines of the age-old maxim: "The rich get richer while the poor get poorer."
In the Vatican's latest update on how God's law is being violated in today's world, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, was asked by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano what, in his opinion, are the "new sins." He cited "violations of the basic rights of human nature" through genetic manipulation, drugs that "weaken the mind and cloud intelligence," and the imbalance between the rich and the poor.
"If yesterday sin had a rather individualistic dimension, today it has a weight, a resonance, that's especially social, rather than individual," said Girotti, whose office deals with matters of conscience and grants absolution.
It's not the
first time that the Vatican has sought to put a modern spin on sin.
Last year, the Vatican took on the problem of highway accidents,
issuing a kind of "Ten Commandments" for drivers against the sins of
road rage, alcohol abuse and even rudeness behind the wheel.
Vatican officials, however, stressed that Girotti's comments broke no new ground on what constitutes sin.
On the environment, both
Pope Benedict XVI and the late Pope John Paul II frequently expressed
concern about the fate of the Earth. During Benedict's papacy, Vatican
engineers have developed plans for some Holy See buildings to use solar
energy, including photovoltaic cells on the roof of the auditorium for
pilgrims' audiences with the pontiff.
John Paul also dedicated
much of his long papacy to condemning the gap between have and
have-nots in speeches in his travels throughout the world as well as in
writings.
"The poor are always
becoming poorer and the rich ever more rich, feeding unsustainable
social injustice," Girotti said in the interview published Sunday.
Closer to home, Girotti was
asked about the many "situations of scandal and sin within the church,"
in what appeared to be a reference to allegations in the United States
and other countries of sexual abuse by clergy of minors and the
coverups by hierarchy.
The monsignor acknowledged
the "objective gravity" of the allegations, but contended that the
heavy coverage by mass media of the scandals must also be denounced
because it "discredits the church."
Benedict has been leading
the Vatican's campaign against abortion, and Girotti was asked about
the "widespread perception" that the church doesn't consider the
"difficult" predicament for women.
Girotti rejected that view,
saying that Catholic organizations help unwed mothers, educating "their
children who come into the worth because of their lack of foresight"
and facilitating adoption.
Copyright: Yahoo! News
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Re: Vatican updates its thou-shalt-not list
by Kaya on Friday, March 14, 2008 (CDT)
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Un-freakin-believable! An institute with so much power and sway doesn't even desire to use it's weight to change things but instead just talks about it, ad nauseum. Not wanting to tackle the issue of child molestation by the clergy is such a slap in the face it leaves me shaking my head. To try to justify burying it because it "discredits the church" leaves me speechless. Of couse it bloody discredits the church! The clergy are harbouring pedophiles in their ranks. Their very actions are enough to make me rally against everything they stand for. What kind of a God lets this kind of thing go? Maybe a God who doesn't care? A God who isn't there? A diety made up to facilitate the control over mass amounts of people, money and power? All of the above? It's hard to imagine these clowns have any faith in their God when they routinely break their God's rules in horrific fashion. No offence to anyone who follows the catholic doctrine (my wife included) but the hypocritical Vatican can kiss my ass. |
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