Holy Global Climate Change Batman!
Today’s Foxnews.com headlines had a very religious and a very environmental tilt to them.
First there was this headline Recycle or Repent which describes the Catholic church’s updating the list of mortal sins, adding such things as “ruining the environment” and “carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments” to the list of Mortal Sins.
My favorite line from that article quotes Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican body which oversees confessions and plenary indulgences…
He said that priests must take account of “new sins which have appeared on the horizon of humanity as a corollary of the unstoppable process of globalization.” Whereas sin in the past was thought of as being an individual matter, it now has “social resonance.” Read the rest of this entry »
