Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, a Vatican sin expert told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that modern life requires additions to the seven deadlies. Pope Benedict has made several green appeals for environmental protection, saying issues such as climate change affect the entire human race.

The Mormon Church's new Prophet Thomas S. Monson, of course, will be under pressure to match the pope's sin expansion. But he'll have to proceed cautiously. Making a sin of earning obscene riches through bulldozing the environment could cost the church significant tithing from Utah's legions of developers.