Vatican Increases Number Of Mortal Sins

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ginluvvaMon 10/03/08 17:25

Vatican Increases Number Of Mortal Sins By Sky News SkyNews - Monday, March 10 11:54 am If you want to avoid an afterlife of hellfire and damnation you will now have to do more than obey the Ten Commandments. The Vatican has extended its list of mortal sins to include 21st century issues such as genetic experimentation, pollution, social injustice, drug abuse and excessive wealth. Published in the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano the extended list was revealed at the end of a week long refresher course for priests on the sacrament of confession. According to the Roman Catholic faith a mortal sin must be confessed to a priest and if not absolved or forgiven, will lead to a person's soul being condemned to Hell after death. Traditionally mortal sins are those which are a breach of the Commandments - murder, adultery, stealing and lying to name but a few. The new sins were revealed by Gianfranco Girotti, bishop in charge of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican Department which deals with the forgiveness of sins. Monsignor Girotti, 70, said: ''The reference for sin is the violation of Man's relationship with God and his fellow Man. ''Today there are various new sins which concern the rights of the individual and society and above all these are in the field of bioethics. ''Within this there are several fundamental violations of nature taking place - experiments, genetic manipulation, which are very difficult to control. ''Socially there is the field of drugs which weaken both intelligence and physically, leaving many youngsters outside the ecclesiastical (church) circuit. ''Then elsewhere socially we have inequality of wealth with the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer, this in turns feeds an ever growing social injustice.'' Monsignor Girotti led the confession refresher corse because surveys had revealed that the number of people going was declining. Many said they felt that they ''found it difficult to talk'' to priests about their sin with some saying they feared a severe reprimand. Monsignor Girotti said the aim of the course had been to teach priests to be less aggressive and more understanding in the confessional box. "The Vatican has extended its list of mortal sins to include 21st century issues such as genetic experimentation, pollution, social injustice, drug abuse and excessive wealth." Hold on a minute! Excessive wealth is a sin! Hmmmmmm Pot calling Kettle black methinks! So does that mean that the whole of the Catholic church is going to hell ? After all they have billions in the bank and own more land and property than any other group I know of.

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