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Iron Maiden may need to revise their song to keep it current - the Vatican has updated the list
The new sins take aim at those who undermine society in far reaching ways, including by taking or dealing in drugs, polluting the environment, and engaging in manipulative genetic science, The Times of London reports.
Also new to the list are paedophilia, abortion, and social injustices that cause poverty or the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few.
They join the long-standing evils of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, anger, envy and pride as mortal sins - the gravest kind, which threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession or penitence.
The churchs revised position came as the Pope lamented the decreasing sense of sin in todays secularised world, and falling rates of Roman Catholics going to confession, The Times reported.
The new sins take aim at those who undermine society in far reaching ways, including by taking or dealing in drugs, polluting the environment, and engaging in manipulative genetic science, The Times of London reports.
Also new to the list are paedophilia, abortion, and social injustices that cause poverty or the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few.
They join the long-standing evils of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, anger, envy and pride as mortal sins - the gravest kind, which threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession or penitence.
The churchs revised position came as the Pope lamented the decreasing sense of sin in todays secularised world, and falling rates of Roman Catholics going to confession, The Times reported.
