VATICAN CITY — A Vatican keen to show its green side has added pollution to the realm of "new sins" that today's Catholics must confront and avoid.In this age of expanding globalization, the Vatican is telling followers that sin is not just an individual act but can also be a transgression against the larger community. An offense against God, said senior Vatican official Msgr. Gianfranco Girotti, "is not only stealing or coveting another man's wife, it is also destroying the environment."Polluting was just one of several sins Girotti decried as products of modern circumstances that must be addressed urgently.

Others include gene manipulation (such as cloning or stem cell research), drug abuse and becoming too wealthy, as well as practices more routinely condemned by the