Vatican issues "Ten Commandments for Drivers"

international | crime and justice | other press Tuesday June 19, 2007 19:55 by Dante Algheiro @ the drive by motel with Virgil just outside - Barstow- fear loathing & redemption.

A great moral victory for anti-car activists such as critical mass types & reclaim the streets sorts has just been reported. The Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant People (of the Holy See - Vatican) has issued a 36 page pamphlet entitled "Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road" which include a dinky ten guidelines already being dubbed "commandments" by cheeky secular cynical men and women of little faith in media organisations such as the BBC & Car magazine.

na lig sinn i gcothú.......I'd just like to highlight the good bits - "We know that as a consequence of transgressions and negligence, 1.2 million people die each year on the roads" remarks
Cardinal Renato Martino who is the Roman Catholic's man on itinerants and migrants. You'll note that itinerants covers a range of gypsies, travellers, refugees, SUV mothers of 2 and commercial travellers.

"Thou shalt not drive and drink",
"thou shalt not make rude gestures behind the steering wheel" the pamphlet muses on how many drivers endure wrath which leads not only to incivic language but through roadrage may cause violence to be done. That's 8th circle of Hell stuff. We're all against that & pro the itinerants & migrants & anti-car now.

"help accident victims" :- that would be the good Samaritan. Not many of them left these days they've been a bit influenced by the "conflict" and "occupation".

The document brought to us bythe people who gave you all the popemobiles also reflects on how a car like a condom or a Enda O Brien book can bring the user to occassions of sin such as ; engaging in prostitution, acquiring the comforts of harlots, dangerous overtaking, soliciting sodomites & paying for Oil and slave labour produced rubber tyres (well the Vatican didn't mention the oil or slaves that's my devilish spin...)

here are the commandments which I have brought down the mountain to you this day - they are a pearl of great price.


1. You shall not kill.
2. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.
3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.
4. Be charitable and help your neighbor in need, especially victims of accidents.
5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.
6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.
7. Support the families of accident victims.
8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.
9. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party.
10. Feel responsible toward others.


the links :I'm sorry I don't have a picture of catholics and cars "spreading the word".

-http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6768395.stm
http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2007/06/vatican_stor....html
Reuters titled the story "no vrooom at the inn". Suffer journalists to come unto me....
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/4901....html
http://www.thecarconnection.com/blog/?p=643