My Weekends Are Booked For A While

11. March 2008 by admin.

The Catholic Church released a list of 7 new sins.  The list includes some issues I would have expected, such as birth control and stem cell research, but also encompassed such things as pollution and contributing to economic disparity.  The full list is:

1. “Bioethical” violations such as birth control

2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research

3. Drug abuse

4. Polluting the environment

5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

6. Excessive wealth

7. Creating poverty

For the most part, I’m impressed.

While the Church is still on the wrong side of the birth control & stem cell debate, I’m glad it has gone from condeming the more societal kinds of acts as a matter of conscience to making them expressly sinful.  Doing so adds an emphasis that was lacking before.

As an aside, The Apostolic Penitentiary is actually the branch dedicated to forgiveness.  There is a definate dichotomy between its mission and its name.

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