I have been traveling this week up in Minneapolis, MN. The problem with traveling and staying in hotels is that I have a hard time sleeping. So....it's 1:30am on Thursday morning, I'm watching ESPN and surfing through my favorite blogs and news websites when I came across an unusual document . The Vatican on Tuesday issued a set of "ten commandments" for drivers. The document is is titled "Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road."
CNN.com says:
"The document, 'Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road,' extols the benefits of driving -- family outings, getting the sick to the hospital, allowing people to see other cultures.
It warned about the effects of road rage, saying driving can bring out "primitive" behavior in motorists, including "impoliteness, rude gestures, cursing, blasphemy, loss of sense of responsibility or deliberate infringement of the highway code."
The "Drivers' Ten Commandments," as listed by the document, are:
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 Pope has obviously not driven in Chicago where you HAVE to randomly honk your horn when driving down town....talk about a Paradox!
