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Selling
arms, gambling not sins: Australian cleric
Friday November 12, 2010 03:32:40 PM,
IANS
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Sydney: Gambling,
smoking and selling arms were not intrinsically wrong, and if they
did not threaten the well-being of one's family, they could not be
considered as sins, a senior Australian cleric said Friday.
"I must confess I do feel a bit uneasy about that, but only a bit
uneasy. Because culturally I'm an Irish Australian and we grew up
gambling," Cardinal George Pell said at the Notre Dame University
near here, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Pell said it might be hypocritical for the Catholic Church to
condemn gambling, because gambling in itself was not intrinsically
wrong.
"Only when it becomes an addiction, threatening the well-being of
oneself and one's family, does it become a sin," he said.
He said as far as the ethics of selling tobacco went, supplying
adults who were aware of the risks and still chose to smoke was
"nothing to rush to the confessional about".
And when asked about the ethics of selling arms, he said one "can
produce arms morally".
"You might say in some cases it is necessary. We are a peaceful
country. If we were unarmed that would be an enticement to evil
people. The best way to stay as we are is to be strong and
effectively armed so I think you could make the case," he said.
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