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• Vatican Lists Seven (NEW) Social Sins, Including Drug Abuse

  The Vatican has put together a list of seven new so-called “social” sins that includes excessive wealth, drug abuse, littering, genetic tampering and creating poverty.

  The seven social sins are:

  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 original deadly sins:
  

  1. Pride
  

  2. Envy
  

  3. Gluttony
  

  4. Lust
  

  5. Anger
  

  6. Greed
  

  7. Sloth
  

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  Mar 11, 2008 · category: Articles, Religion
  
  Posted by Tom Collins