The Vatican has updated the list of seven deadly sins, and added seven mortal sins:

Environmental pollution
Genetic manipulation
Accumulating excessive wealth (how ironic!)
Inflicting poverty
Drug trafficking and consumption
Morally debatable experiments
Violation of fundamental rights of human nature

Fewer confessions and new sins

Also from the same article: Archbishop Girotti...
brushed off cases of sexual violence against minors committed by priests as "exaggerations by the mass media aimed at discrediting the Church".

Yes, what does the Church say about wealth? Isn't it " Give it to us, for it is written that it is easier for a poor man to thread a needle than for a rich man to enter a camel" ?

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for it is written that it is easier for a poor man to thread a needle than for a rich man to enter a camel" ?

Only if the camel is standing.

Sin Is

Anything that one does that is not in the best interest of their life for as long as they shall live.

For some that could be thinking.

Hmmm, I wonder who decides what's in the best interests of my life?

<--------- always thinking sinful thoughts

I'm so glad I'm not a Catholic. Imagine having to confess to some priest that I'd used a plastic bag (no dg not that kind: that kind is up there with abortion ) with malice aforethought viz.taken a non-disposable one from the Religious Tract Society's shop when I took that booklet in Braille to read in the cinema

It's interesting that, on the one hand, the RC addresses what are, in the main, contemporary issues, while steadfastly holding on to such anachronistic ideas as an all male priesthood and priestly celebacy.

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Originally posted by FredPuli:
Imagine having to confess to some priest that I'd used a plastic bag (no dg not that kind: that kind is up there with abortion )

Sure. British men like us to think they are easily confused, the two being of a similar size.

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Originally posted by dance girl: The Vatican has updated the list of seven deadly sins, and added seven mortal sins.

I can think of only one thing to say:

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Originally posted by philalethist:
Sin Is Anything that one does that is not in the best interest of their life for as long as they shall live.

As dance girl says, "I wonder who decides what's in the best interests of my life?" Certainly I can't be trusted to make those decisions for myself.

I was speaking of those things which would be a convenience of the moment types of choices.

I could rob a bank which at the time may seem to get me great gain. But as I would sit in a cell lonely and blue I would soon realize that it was not in the best interest of my life for as long as I may live. Taking someone else's advice and having it fail can also be grouped in what is not in your own best interest for as long as you live.

Paul wrote: Have you suffered so many things in vain, if they yet be in vain. Some people never learn. Romans 14:22 KJV Wisdom makes the difference.

I imagine there is more to sin than "convenience of the moment types of choices."

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Originally posted by Elexina:
I imagine there is more to sin than "convenience of the moment types of choices."

Agreed. And isn't it sitting in lonely prison cells where many people find religion,anyway?

So they claim, anyway.

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Originally posted by Elexina:
I imagine there is more to sin than "convenience of the moment types of choices."

When we are young and have the beauty of youth

If we fail to develop the matters of heart

When the beauty of youth fades away

All that remains is the beast.

Sure is!