http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/200...ks-to-vatican/

I guess the Confession Season (Lent) is slow, so they had to take action?

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"I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God."
John Shelby Spong

Congrats Phils 2008 World Champs!

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
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Hmmm, seems to me that you can't really avoid the New Sin No. 1 without engaging in New Sin Nos. 5 & 7 since more babies born to people who can't afford them in the first place "contribute[es] to widening the divide between rich and poor" and "creat[es] poverty." So only the wealthy should have sex, I guess.

Of course, every new person on this planet causes pollution no matter how you "green" you try to live, so New Sin No. 4 is also violated no matter what.

So I guess the Church is saying that no one should ever have sex again. Yeah. Right. That's the ticket.

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---Shosh

I think maybe somebody didn't think this one through...



__Jason

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Well, the German is old. Maybe it won't be long! Makes me miss JP1 & 2.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-fkSYDtUY

"Censorship is free advertising by the government"--Federico Fellini

"Do you mind if I smoke while you eat?"

No kidding. When I grew up in Overbrook, only 1 person had a brand new Mercedes...and it was a St Callistus priest.

It's morally dubious to tell others how to live.

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--Melissa Lane, The Guardian; obituary for philosopher of science Peter Lipton.

Farewell Eddy Arnold...Make the World Go Away...

MAGIC THEATER
ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY
FOR MADMEN ONLY!

You all are crazy, this is great I was getting board breaking the other ones, and their were some that were just too yuck to break, these seem very easy ....

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~John F. Kennedy

Uh oh... careful... people used to be burned at the stake for making such comments.

The Vatican wants it's gold and it wants yours too.... seeing as it's sinful for you to have any.

Actually, that fancy hat would qualify them for one of the old-school sins too: pride. As would everything else they've got in the closet. I've been to the Vatican. St. Peter's has more bling than an entire season of Cribs.

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"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." — Woody Allen

(Avatar stolen from this nifty project.)

What's up with "excessive wealth?" If I make lots of money it's a sin? Is it still a sin if I give some of it away? How much do I have to give away for it not to be sinful?

We wonder why there are so many "recovering Catholics"

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