"O Vaticano actualizou a lista de pecados capitais para adaptá-la à "realidade da globalização".
Os novos pecados capitais – merecedores de condenação segundo a Igreja Católica – serão agregados aos anteriores: gula, luxúria, avareza, ira, soberba, vaidade e preguiça.
Os novos pecados capitais
1. Fazer modificação genética
2. Poluir o meio ambiente
3. Causar injustiça social
4. Causar pobreza
5. Tornar-se extremamente rico
6. Usar drogas
Foquemo-nos no ponto 5.
Bankers' best guesses about the Vatican's wealth put it at $10 billion to $15 billion. Of this wealth, Italian stockholdings alone run to $1.6 billion, 15% of the value of listed shares on the Italian market. The Vatican has big investments in banking, insurance, chemicals, steel, construction, real estate. Dividends help pay for Vatican expenses and charities such as assisting 1,500,000 children and providing some measure of food and clothing to 7,000,000 needy Italians. Unlike ordinary stockholders, the Vatican pays no taxes on this income, which led the leftist Rome weekly L'Espresso last week to call it "the biggest tax evader in Italy."
Foquemo-nos no ponto 5.
Bankers' best guesses about the Vatican's wealth put it at $10 billion to $15 billion. Of this wealth, Italian stockholdings alone run to $1.6 billion, 15% of the value of listed shares on the Italian market. The Vatican has big investments in banking, insurance, chemicals, steel, construction, real estate. Dividends help pay for Vatican expenses and charities such as assisting 1,500,000 children and providing some measure of food and clothing to 7,000,000 needy Italians. Unlike ordinary stockholders, the Vatican pays no taxes on this income, which led the leftist Rome weekly L'Espresso last week to call it "the biggest tax evader in Italy."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,833509,00.html
1 comentário:
Digamos que eu, também um pouco desviada dos caminhos do Senhor (e se o Senhor tem caminhos!!!), não me importaria nada cometer o pecado nº5. São coisas que nos ultrapassam! Porquê ser extemamente rico? Se calhar poque todos almejam exactamente o contrário da sua vida quotidiana. Prometo que, se um dia for extremamente rica, desejarei ser pobre.
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