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Vatican's
Modern Social Sins
On
March 9, 2008, the vatican newspaper published a list of seven modern
social sins. The list appeared in an interview with Monsignor
Gianfranco Girotti, who suggested they were "new sins which have
appeared on the horizon of humanity as corollary to the unstoppable
process of globalization." [CNN] Although not meant as an official
shift in policy on what actions are most likely to earn you a front-row
seat in the roasting racks of the eternal rotisserie of damnation, the
Modern Sins are consistent with Pope Benedict XVI's hardline stance in
confronting what he judges to be the moral equivocation in secular
society.
In some cases, the media erroneously reported this list as a modernized
replacement for the original seven, occasionally attributing them
directly to the Pope.
The
Modern Social Sins are:
- destroying
the environment
- genetic
manipulation
- obscene
wealth
- creating
poverty
- drug
trafficking
- immoral
scientific experimentation
- violation
of the fundamental rights of human nature
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