As if seven deadly sins weren’t bad enough, you can add seven more to list. No longer listing just lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy, and pride, the pope has now added “polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely rich, drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia, and causing social injustice.” Was he right to do so? And what happens to famous works like the Canterbury Tales and Divine Comedy and the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus that all center around and focus on the original seven? What becomes of them?
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Ridiculous. Please actually read the announcement, the pope has done no such thing. FOX News: probably not a good place to equip yourself for informed debate.
“Please actually read the announcement”
Where is this announcement?
As far as I can tell, from this site you can download an english translation of the interview:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1984039/posts
In it, not the Pope, but a Bishop Girotti, Regent of the Penitentiary, addresses the topic of new sins. Here is the question:
“In your opinion, what are the “new sins”?”
“There are various areas today in which we adopt sinful behavior, as with individual and
social rights. This is especially so in the field of bioethics where we cannot deny the
existence of violations of fundamental rights of human nature – this occurs by way of
experiments and genetic modifications, whose results we cannot easily predict or control.
Another area, which indeed pertains to the social spectrum, is that of drug use, which
weakens our minds and reduces our intelligence. As a result, many young people are left
out of Church circles. Here’s another one: social and economic inequality, in the sense
that the rich always seem to get richer, and the poor, poorer. This [phenomenon] feeds off
an unsustainable form of social injustice and is related to environmental issues –which
currently have much relevant interest.”
My question is, could someone tell me when inequality became a sin? Is it the point of justice to make everyone equal in every way, or is it to make sure that everybody is treated fairly in a court of law? Why it is somehow unjust that people make different amounts of money is puzzling to me.
Looks like Brad Pitt could be getting a knock on his door for “Seven… no, Fourteen…”
Do people really know what abortion is?
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, recently posted two videos on YouTube in which he describes and demonstrates the two most common abortion procedures, using plastic fetal models, the actual instruments of abortion, and the words found in medical textbooks and court testimony.
You can view these videos at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_y9GP_-DA (Dismemberment abortion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOAPleF1t0 (Suction abortion).
These videos are part of a new project called, “Is This What You Mean?” It aims to educate the public about the nature of abortion and to challenge public officials and candidates who support the legality of abortion to admit what it is. A full description of the project is at http://www.priestsforlife.org/action/abortion-procedure-revealed.htm.
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