Monitor Online "NOW, the souls of drug-pushers, the obscenely rich, environmental polluters and “manipulative” genetic scientists will go to Hell, unless they repent and seek redemption.
After 1,500 years, the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalisation.
The list of sins, published yesterday in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the 'decreasing sense of sin' in today's 'secularized world' and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession.
The new deadly sins are polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely rich, drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia and causing social injustice."
After 1,500 years, the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalisation.
The list of sins, published yesterday in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the 'decreasing sense of sin' in today's 'secularized world' and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession.
The new deadly sins are polluting, genetic engineering, being obscenely rich, drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia and causing social injustice."