This of mine is newly posted at Chicago Daily Observer:
The Vatican chimed in on the ills of the day:
This latest update on how God’s law is being violated in today’s
world comes from Msgr. [Bishop in the non-Vatican term] Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary.He pointed to ’‘violations of the basic rights of human nature’’
through genetic manipulation, the use of drugs that ’‘weaken the mind and cloud intelligence’’ and the vast disparity between rich and poor.’‘If yesterday sin had a rather individualistic dimension, today it
has a weight, a resonance, that’s especially social, rather than
individual,’’ Girotti said in an interview published Sunday in the
Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano about what he views as the ’‘new sins.’’I love the “penitentiary” business. Not as in Stateville, be it known,
but as in penance, which we do for our sins whether eligible for
Stateville or not.………………………… more more more
Blithe Spirit 