New Sins

Did you hear the list of sins the Pope announced on Monday? I just gave a sermon Sunday on our ecological sins. Presently Spirit Garage is planning a Watershed Clean up on April 19 at Loring Park. We've spent the Lenten Journey looking at eco-stewardship and taking steps to be "less timid" as a Christian community in relationship to the environment. We talk about caring for the poor - Nature is the New Poor.

The Vatican seems to think so as well. Following a week-long training seminar for priests in Rome, the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti has announced that the seven new mortal sins are to be ...

· Environmental pollution;
· Genetic manipulation;
· Accumulating excessive wealth;
· Inflicting poverty;
· Drug trafficking and consumption;
· Morally debatable experiments;
· Violation of fundamental rights of human nature.

"We are losing the notion of sin," said Pope Benedict, in support of the move. "If people do not confess regularly, they risk slowing their spiritual rhythm."

Check out Ethical Living blog "Have you sinned lately?"