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Seven More Sins, Thanks to Vatican By Mike Nizza Lust, gluttony, greed and the rest of the seven deadly sins gathered in the 6th century will have to get used to a modern companion. A Vatican official has articulated seven new categories of sin "due to the phenomenon of globalization." "While sin used to concern mostly the individual, today it has mainly a social resonance," Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti told L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican City's local paper. Bloomberg News parsed his remarks into a clip-n-savable list: 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 The message, according to a leading scholar on Catholic thought talking to BBC News, was meant as a reality check to priests "not sufficiently attuned to some of the real evils in our world." There is more to life than following the Ten Commandments, it would seem. The seven deadly sins served another purpose, too: inspiring artists from Bosch to Balanchine. Can anyone picture a similar renaissance fueled by this new list. Or has it already happened? Rayilyn Brown Board Member AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn