"Thou shalt not pollute" - Vatican adds polluting, genetic modification to list of sins


"Thou shalt not pollute the earth", and "thou shalt not engage in genetic modification" are new sins of a new time, Archbishop Gianfranco Giotti, the Vatican's number to man said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.

Reuters reports that the Vatican has outlined a series of new forms of social sin that includes ecological offenses, drug trafficking, and social and economic injustice.