Thou shalt recycle or go to hell, warns the Vatican

For many people, a vacation from real life can also lead to a time-out from balancing along the straight and narrow tightrope of morals. Lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth (my personal favorite), anger, envy and pride come out of hiding and run rampant - except for anger hopefully - when you're on vacation!

Saint or Sinner?It's no wonder that coming home feels like penance.

After 1,500 years of guiding us safely along, the Vatican has gone and changed the rules, updated them. Pope Benedict XVI deplores our "decreasing sense of sin," L'Osservatore Romano reported yesterday.

The ridiculously rich, drug pushers, people who don't recycle and scientists who manipulate genetics should consider this a warning. You're headed straight to hell if you don't shape and change your wicked ways.

While the 7 old sins from Dante's Inferno outlined the various ways we could individually make our way to hell, the new batch has a social conscience and focus on how our sins affect the whole world. He didn't spell out the details of each sin but said, "New sins have appeared on the horizon of humanity as a corollary of the unstoppable process of globalization."

2008, 14 deadly sins

Additional 7 deadly sins of genetics spelled out

Aiding and abetting people who use information from their personal genomes for improving their lives

I'm very thankful there's still no mention of sailing on astronomically large cruise ships, drinking until 3 am at the disco or lounging endlessly around the pool. Actually, considering how much I love my vacation, I feel like I just dodged a bullet. So to speak.

What do you think of the additional 7 sins? Guilty of any of them?