Wee Alfie Could Show the Pope How to Get Sin Into the Headlines

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THE Vatican published the results last week of its survey on sin. If anyone knows about sin, it should be the Catholic Church.

Its whole business plan is predicated on sin and guilt and penance. Read the small print in your membership guidebook. If you don't go to a branch of Vatican plc at least once a year and get shriven, you go to the bad fire when you die.

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Wee Alfie Could Show the Pope How to Get Sin Into the Headlines

The problem for the church is that sin is no longer sexy. The potential client base, aka the faithful, are losing their sense of shame. Or, as Pope Benedict XVI put it: "We are losing the notion of sin. If people do not confess regularly, they risk slowing their spiritual rhythm....

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