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Can driving greener get you into heaven? Vatican says sure

The first hints that low-mpg cars were sinful in the eyes of the Catholic Church came last fall, when a spokesman for Pope Benedict XVI confirmed that the Pope would use an April 2008 address to the UN as a way to speak to the moral implications of living a greener life. Today, the Vatican has gone a bit further and told its followers that polluting the earth should be considered a "new" sin. Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, whom Reuters describes as "the Vatican's number two man in the sometimes murky area of sins and penance," said over the ... Read more →

Could the Pope make 15 mpg a sin? Sebastian Blanco

The details, of course, are still unknown. But that Pope Benedict XVI will turn his first address to the United Nations next April into a chance to espouse on the moral side of living a greener life ...

Can driving greener get you into heaven? Vatican says sure 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The first hints that low-mpg cars were sinful in the eyes of the Catholic Church came last fall, when a spokesman for Pope Benedict XVI confirmed that the Pope would use an April 2008 address to the UN as a way to speak to the moral implications of living a greener life. Today, the Vatican has gone ...

Could the Pope make 15 mpg a sin? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The details, of course, are still unknown. But that Pope Benedict XVI will turn his first address to the United Nations next April into a chance to espouse on the moral side of living a greener life has been confirmed by Vatican spokesmen. Readers who have been with us for a while will remember that ...


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