I won’t say that yesterday was a “good” day for sin, but it was clearly a day that it was prominent.  On the serious side a crime fighting and “squeaky clean” politician was caught in scandal.  And as the Reformed community we shake our heads in disappointment but not in surprise, for “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

And while in this news event several of the traditional “deadly” or “mortal” sins were transgressed, the Vatican comes out with their list of seven new “social” sins.  (Technically, as this Toronto Star article says, a Vatican official discussed modern problems with a Rome newspaper and it was the news media that distilled and spun them down to the more attention-getting “seven modern sins.”)

Update:  There is a good story over on GetReligion called “Seven Sensationalist Sins.”  But for us geeks, the diagram of the combinatorics of the original seven deadly sins, chose two is priceless.