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Topic: Updating the 14 Deadly Sins
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M. Spector
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posted 13 March 2008 05:47 AM
Obligatory disclaimer:I hasten to add that nobody here is singling out the Catholic Church for special criticism, and that other major religions are just as guilty of fraud, hypocrisy, and venality. Now back to the thread topic... quote: Reports that the Vatican has published a new list of the seven deadly sins of modern times that includes littering and economic inequality is simply not true, affirmed the episcopal conference of England and Wales.The conference released a statement today clarifying that an interview published Sunday by L'Osservatore Romano with Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, regent of the tribunal of he Apostolic Penitentiary, was misinterpreted in the media as an official Vatican update to the seven deadly sins, laid out by Pope Gregory the Great in the sixth century. "The Vatican has not published a new list of seven deadly sins; this is not a new Vatican edict," said the conference.
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From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005
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jrose
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Babbler # 13401
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posted 26 March 2008 06:19 AM
From Heather Mallick's Latest: quote: There used to be seven deadly sins. Now there are 14. This is worrying because of the original seven, the only ones that I don't commit daily, nay hourly, are gluttony, greed and envy. Pride, lust and sloth are my bywords, and anger takes up half my waking hours. ... This was the sorry progress I was making on the deadly sins when the Vatican piled on seven new "social" sins. Yes, the Catholic Church is lecturing me —"Thou shalt not kid thyself," as the commentator Mark Morford put it — but as an enthusiastic ironist and atheist, I'll refrain from comment. Sins nouveau, courtesy of Bishop Gianfranco Girotti of the Apostolic Penitentiary, here goes. 1. "Bioethical' violations such as birth control. Guilty. 2. "Morally dubious'' experiments such as stem cell research. I have no truck with embryos myself, but if this includes planning to kill my neighbour's small yappy-type dog with little balls of foie gras, guilty, very much so. 3. Drug abuse. Meursault hangovers, guilty and proud of it. 4. Polluting the environment. Haven't yet phased out the toxic household cleaners, still fertilize lawn, press Print button too often. Very, very guilty. 5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor. If that means studiedly earning money, feminist guilt in the first degree. 6. Excessive wealth. According to my last week's mail — from the World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the CBC, Daily Bread Food Bank, Médecins sans Frontières, the Martha Hall Findlay election campaign, the federal NDP, McSweeney's, NewsBiscuit, Adbusters, net-a-porter.com, The Leprosy Mission, Saxony Capital Management, brucespringsteen.net, Sephora.com and the terrifying Brookstone pointless housewares catalogue — I am guilty of money possession and should lighten my load by sending them lots immediately, and they take PayPal. 7. Creating poverty. According to offspring — jeans, I'm thinking EarnestSewn, of course they all look different, you sound like dad — guilty and it's your job to feel that way. That's 11 sins and I didn't even leave the house. But Bear Stearns executives walked away rich after subprime gambling that would shame William Bennett, and Dick Cheney spent the Iraq War's fifth anniversary fishing off the Sultan of Oman's royal yacht. Why am I whipping myself with nails?
From: Ottawa | Registered: Oct 2006
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