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August 31st, 2007

Will the Church sell carbon offset indulgences?

Hmm.

Saint Gore?

Via: Times Online:

Forgotten to recycle any newspapers or tin cans recently? Feeling guilty because you neglected to carbon offset your flight to somewhere, anywhere, outside England this summer?

The Roman Catholic Church is at hand with a new line in â€œgreen confessionsâ€ to help eco-sinners to find forgiveness.

Dom Anthony Sutch, the Benedictine monk who resigned as head of Downside School to become a parish priest in Suffolk, will be at the countyâ€™s Waveney Greenpeace festival this weekend to hear eco-confessions in what is thought to be the first dedicated confessional booth of its kind.

Vested in a green chasuble-style garment made from recycled curtains, and in a booth constructed of recycled doors, he will hear the sins of of those who have not recycled the things they ought to have done and who have consumed the things they ought not to have done.

Father Sutch tries to practise what he preaches but has turned the heating down so low at his church of St Benetâ€™s that at least one parishioner has fled to the warmer care of a neighbouring priest for winter services.

He told The Times: â€œIt is not, I hope, blasphemous to do this. I do not think it is. It is just an attempt to make people conscious of the way they live. The Church is aware of green issues and of how aware we have to be of how we treat the environment.

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