So Britain´s most powerful God botherer is going to spending quite a few millenia in the snake pit. It almost makes you want to believe in all that crap…

“Despite testing for sin or sin-like qualities for the better part of 2000 years, the church’s Sin Labs has yielded little in the way of usable sin vaccines.”

I’m imagining some kind of scientific journal whose archives are being maintained in the hallowed halls of the Vatican Palace. Alas, it’s probably going to be written in lingua latina, which’ll be a shame because the stuff’s highly likely to be better than the crud we get from Answers Research Journal.

In an era of equal rights for women, unprecedented discoveries about the structure of life, and astonishing advances in global communications, the efforts of a male-dominated, quasi-celibate Catholic hierarchy to legislate reality for hundreds of millions of people strike me as ludicrous.

the root of sin is in the heart of man, in his free will, according to the teaching of the Lord: “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a man” (1853, citing Mt. 15: 19-20).

also,

Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them (1868)

this and other passages have a distinctly individualist feel to them. however, note the acknowledgment of cooperative effects—and this is especially germane to the present post and thread:

Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness. “Structures of sin” are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a “social sin.”

prima facie, looks like final moral responsibility always winds up on individuals and not on the “structures” they inhabit. just a slightly educated guess.