It's all over the news (and Gimpy's Blog and badscience.net and Jesus and Mo and JREF) that molecular biology is now considered a sin, along with pollution and drug abuse and that, but it seems the text of Nicola Gori's interview of Gianfranco Girotti is only available in Italian, and even that not from the website of L'Osservatore Romano, where this was published in the daily Italian edition of the 9th of March. I'm going to try to translate the whole thing eventually. Please point out anything which could be rendered better, but don't blame me for not making sense or misrepresenting. Text is liable to change without notice as I discover errors, but the more I study it the more I feel that it doesn't make a huge amount of sense in Italian either.
In conversation with the regent of the Penitentiary at the conclusion of the course for confessors
The new forms of social sin
by Nicola Gori
Genetic manipulation; environmental pollution; social inequality; unsustainable social injustice: these are the new forms of sin facing us on the horizon of humanity, almost as a corollary to the unstoppable process of globalization. A new test also for a ministry, that of the Apostolic Penitentiary, which works hard to reaffirm even its own role in times in which there is less perception of sin itself. Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, bishop regent of the Penitentiary, speaks of it in this interview given to L'Osservatore Romano, the day following the conclusion of the course for confessors.
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