Failing to control your emissions, discharges, and spills that pollute the earth could find you spending eternity in Hell, according to the Vatican's Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti. The Monsignor recently provided an updated list of seven new mortal sins to relate to modern times--the age of globalization. Topping the list is polluting the earth.

Although, it does not actually reflect a change in official doctrine, Girotti told the Vatican's newspaper: "You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming, or coveting your neighbor's wife, but also by polluting, cloning, taking drugs, promoting social injustice, or becoming obscenely rich."

This effort follows the Church's desire to appeal to the modern Catholic. Last summer the Vatican issued the "Drivers' Ten Commandments" targeting road rage and drunk driving, and also warned that cars can be "an occasion of sin."

According to the Monsignor, the new mortal sins are polluting the environment, causing social injustice, genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, causing poverty, accumulating excessive wealth, and trafficking and taking drugs.

The mention of the environment reflects growing interest by Pope Benedict XVI in saving the planet. Last summer, officials announced the installation of 1,000 solar panels in the Paul VI Audience Hall, the main auditorium in Vatican City. The Vatican has also joined a reforestation program to offset its carbon emissions. And at a youth festival with Pope Benedict XVI last year, participants were given prayer books made with recycled paper.

But it's not just the Catholic Church giving attention to the environmental troubles of the planet. The Southern Baptist Convention in March announced plans to fight global warming, and the California diocese of the Episcopal Church recently appointed its first canon for environmental ministry.