Sure, but there is no penalty for the new ones. Who is going to listen to this. Got to have some kind of discomfort or it’s just entertainment.
Search much?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983260/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983354/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983333/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1983235/posts
Even “media skeptics” like Neal Boortz believe the MSM spin on this. As Bugs Bunny liked to say, “what a maroon!”
I still have to ask why anyone who isn’t Catholic would bother to take offense.
You don’t follow it so what’s the problem?
I don’t handle snakes and don’t care which sect does, so why is Benedict’s edict a problem for everyone else?
I have not been able to find any confirmation of this. I checked out the Vatican website. The only news about the Cardinal mentioned which involved confessions did not say anything about new sins. It was about how confession is in a crisis and how priest’s can better meet the needs of the penitent. The only actual sin mentioned was divorce and remarriage.
I never, ever rely on the news’ to report on religion. Catholic or Protestant. Also remember that the English edition of L’ Osservato Roma (sp) is only released once a week. The daily edition is in Italian, so there could very well be major blunders in translation.
Are they going to add more homunculi to Full Metal Alchemist?
Voting for any democrate candidate (US Only) - punishment = you get what you deserve
Saying anything negative about Hitler-y (US Only) - punishment = you get fosterized
Saying anything negative about Ann Coulter (US Only) - punishment = eternal listening to recordings of b. clinton speeches
Thinking - even in your heart - that the catholic church needs to get a life (world wide) - punishment = eternal control of papacy by european prelates.
The writer is an ignoramus.
There are no new sins. Just new circumstances in which man's fallen nature transgresses God's law. The sin of selfishness, for instance, could be manifest on a medieval feudal manor by allowing your mule to graze on another farmer's pasture and it can be manifest today in a modern industrial society by throwing your effluent into another man's food source.
Same sin, different century.
This is a childish outburst of ignorance.
Is there any scriptual foundation for these findings?
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
Judging by what I have seen online about this it looks like it is nothing more than an interview with a Bishop about sin in the modern world. Hardly an example of the Vatican actually adding new sins. And there is no list of sins to add anything to in the first place. What it comes down to is this doesn’t create any new sins, just as Bishop Mahoney has never been able to delete any.
"To begin with is the whole "rules based" approach of the author, which is fundamentally tone deaf to the fact that the faith is about relationship, not breaking rules. Off on that wrong footing, the author then makes it sound like the Vatican has added new "mortal sins" to some traditional list in order to keep up with Euro-trendiness. As is often the case, Dante somehow becomes an extension of the Magisterium (and the author even concludes with a list of official looking hellish punishments for the traditional seven deadlies, all derived from the Inferno).
" Then we discover that the "seven holy virtues" are "chastity, abstinence, temperance, diligence, patience, kindness and humility". At this point my WTF? meter goes off and I am aware that the author, with his rules-based approach to the Faith has not the slighted idea what he's talking about. His view of the Faith, like so many secular Brits, is of a regimen that's all about crushing human happiness with fasting, abstinence and celibacy. The goal of this strawman Catholicism is to transform a man into a sheep. In the Catholic world I know of, the seven virtues are prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, faith, hope and love, which are ordered toward transforming a man into a heroic saint in imitation of Jesus Christ. The Brit media should check it out sometime.
" Anyway, the piece goes stumbling along, partly repelled by the Scary Authoritarian Catholic Church and partly enamored of what it takes to be a religious effort to conform to the Gaia-worship so popular among secular Brits. To be sure, there's always a note of cynicism at play in the piece. One gets the sense that the author imagines "the Vatican" is jumping on the Mother Earth bandwagon as part of its relentless Jesuitical scheming to insinuate itself into the good graces of the Euro-elites. In reality, of course, all "the Vatican" is doing is applying the same old moral principles of sin and virtue to contemporary situations. You shall not kill--even when the person you are killing is really small. Tend and care for the Garden of Creation--even if you are the President of a giant corporation.
" It's all so Not New. But newspapers need copy every day, so they don't let their ignorance get in the way of the stream of "information."
Oh my, are you sure some of these aren’t rules for us all by the DNC
There is no Catholic post listed on Zenit and I believe all these four posts are only spin.
I’ll post the seven deadly sins and the seven heavenly virtues later.
Religion Moderator — frankly, I believe this is the fourth thread on the entire forum bashing the Vatican. What is happening here?
It just doesn't get any better than that.
man this is bizarre
good lord, is the Vatican really this PC.....this sounds more like Unitarians
if this is true, it’s friggin awful
So...if I comminted one of these the day before it was “deemed,” am I guilty?
Not “new sins” but an old media blind spot (Vatican _DOES_NOT_ Announce Seven New Deadly Sins)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983663/posts
Didn't the Supremes declare that exhaling pollutes?
[Accumulating excessive wealth ]
If accumulating wealth is a ‘sin’, why isn’t sitting on your dead arse and not trying to accumulate wealth?