New deadly sins?

Of course, we already have a pretty storied list of old deadly sins, the seven sisters of sin, but it appears that there are more or different deadly sins to be reckoned with in Rome. At a press conference at the Holy See Press Office September 16, 2024, Cardinal Mario Grech, General Rapporteur for the Synod, outlined the events surrounding the October Synodal Assembly. The whole thing began, appropriately enough, with a call to repentance and a testament to the suffering sin has caused.  The new list of sins certainly fits with the times.  Although it is decidedly Roman, it could just as easily have been published by the judicatories of just about any denomination.  The new list of sins is:

• Sin against peace
• Sin against creation, against indigenous populations, against migrants
• Sin of abuse
• Sin against women, family, youth
• Sin of using doctrine as stones to be hurled
• Sin against poverty
• Sin against synodality / lack of listening, communion, and participation of all.

Somewhere surely you could find the Sin against people or clericalism.  It has surely been on the pope's mind of late. Maybe there could be subset to include the sins against the alphabet soup of sexual desire and gender?  In any case, the list of sins accords more with culture and politics than which Scripture.  As is usual, there are often causes in search of texts to support them.  This is no different.

In the end, such a list would in essence cripple any moves to evangelize others or distinguish Biblical roles assigned to male and female or prohibit the ordination of women or enforce doctrinal unity and integrity.  In fact that might just be the point.  These are not sins in the sense of a person meditating upon the Ten Commandments and finding the sin in his or her own heart as much as these are the global sins of the many against the few (never mind that in the developed West such views are rapidly approaching the majority!).  These are conveniently vague enough to allow just about anything to fit under each sin and thereby allow those in charge to add to these sins as new problems are found with those who refuse to step in line with the advancing army of flawed opinions and failed truths.

In the end, Protestants on the progressive end of Christianity may well join with the Woke in Rome to set up a list of sins designed less to encourage the repentance of the individual than to control the political and social movement of the world by those who think they know better.  If that is the case, you do not need to find warrant in God's Word for what you say.  At least these sins will not get in the way of your Christmas list or party plans.