As we all know the society has been adding to the scriptures for-ever. But you know they will make a big deal about this.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010282589
Isabelle Duerme - AHN News Writer
Vatican City (AHN) - In an attempt to give moral and ethical behavior more significance to current times, the Vatican has recently announced seven new deadly sins, published in an issue of the L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper.
The revision of the list comes after 1,500 years, with Vatican officials explaining that the new items address a global "secular" society bent on the concerns in the age of globalization. The sins are said to be an address to the "decreasing sense of sin" in the modern world.
"The sins of today have a social resonance as well as an individual one," said Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary. "In effect, it is more important than ever to pay attention to your sins."
Mgr Girotti named the new mortal sins to be (1)genetic modification; (2) human experimentations, (3) polluting the environment; (4) social injustice; (5) causing poverty; (6) financial gluttony; and (7) taking drugs.
The sins were added, according to the Telegraph, to the original seven, which Mgr Girotti described has having "rather individualistic dimenion(s)."
Mgr Girotti explained that numbers have shown that less Catholics in Italy go to confession, with 60 percent no longer participating in what is considered one of the most important sacraments.
In remedying this, he acknowledged that priests must also consider new sins, brought about by changes in the global community.
"You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor's wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out mortally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos," the Times quoted Mgr Girotti.
Girotti also recognized the growing problems of abortion, pedophilia, and a widespread habit of "making do without God."
"Those who trust in themselves and in their own merits are, as it were, blinded by their own 'I', and their hearts harden in sin," said Girotti.
Vatican Announces Seven New Deadly Sins(how long B4 Dubs mock them)
by darth frosty 6 Replies latest jw friends
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darth frosty
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dinah
Hey according to the Catholic Church I'm home free!!!! SWEET!!!
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ColdRedRain
The Catholic Church jumps the shark again.
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R.Crusoe
Interesting list!
I can see why he feels they are ethically challenging issues!
The idea about 'I' is interesting!
Jesus said of some the truth lies within which behooves you to put trust in 'I' but maybe the worry is that too many will think it a free ride to do as they please to maximise personal gains - so I see the major concern there!
If everyone were trusted to trust in themselves and develop compassion for each other, too many controlling personalities may be willing and ready to fill such gaps with their own 'armies' of fundamentalism or whatever!
So organised religion sees itself as a reign on a wild horse! IMHO. But the reign also strangles a good many however it is used! I don't see how to improve that situation effectively!
And its difficult to see how to argue with the real possibility of large independent groups empowering themselves to do as they may if say organised religion were to disappear.
A catch 22 exists like it does with the motor car - no pollution is best but how to go about without using transport?
Personally organised religion has had my life in a bad state - my inner self in a mess and life unhappy for the most part in one way or another in spite of my best efforts! So for me its a complete no no!
And I do say too that there are many fantastically wholesome individuals with belief in nature or in fact atheist whoare far more 'religios' and compassionate toward life on Earth than many you fiind in organised religions.
So it is obvious to me that religion is not an essential in maintaining peace and humanitarianism, but in reality it has obligations existent at present which cannot simply be switched off and so it seems we will continue to have the irony of many faiths all believing they have got it right as to what god wants of us all!
Therein lies the problem for those whose lives will be messed up by such notions!
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SacrificialLoon
Animal husbandry is genetic modification of sorts, and our crops have been selectively bred for higher yields over the millenia, too. So are we all to become nomadic hunter-gatherers again to please the invisible man in the sky?
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BurnTheShips
What a crock! The loose language in this media accounts seems to indicate that this was the private opinion of a single bishop. In short, this is not a Catholic teaching. Media hyperbole. Not to mention, the list above already falls under the original seven (sloth, greed, etc).
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BurnTheShips
Here is the clarification:
http://www.zenit.org/article-22029?l=english
Littering Not New "Deadly Sin," Bishops Clarify
Say Vatican Didn't Publish List of 7 Modern Misdeeds
LONDON, MARCH 11, 2008 (Zenit.org).- 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. "The story originated from an interview that Bishop Gianfranco Girotti gave to the L'Osservatore Romano in which he was questioned about new forms of social sins in this age of globalization."
The Vatican newspaper interviewed the bishop at the conclusion of a course that took place last week on the "internal forum" -- questions of conscience -- organized by the tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary to strengthen the training of priests in administering the sacrament of confession.In the interview titled "Le Nuove Forme del Peccato Sociale" (The New Forms of Social Sin), journalist Nicola Gori asked the prelate what he thought are the new sins of the modern era.
Bishop Girotti responded: "There are various areas in which today we can see sinful attitudes in relation to individual and social rights.
"Above all in the area of bioethics, in which we cannot fail to denounce certain violations of the fundamental rights of human nature, by way of experiments, genetic manipulation, the effects of which are difficult to prevent and control."
"Another area, a social issue, is the issue of drug use, which debilitates the psyche and darkens the intelligence, leaving many youth outside the ecclesial circuit."
The bishop also mentioned social inequality, "by which the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer, feeding an unsustainable social injustice," and the "area of ecology."