Men and women have different inclinations about most things.

So why shouldn’t they also differ when it comes to their inclinations towards the seven deadly sins?

According to this BBC report, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano this week published an article about a study of confessions undertaken by Jesuit Father Roberto Busa. The study ranked how much difficulty women and men respectively encounter with the capital vices.

The women’s list, listing the sins from highest to least degree of propensity to engage in a given sin, was: 1. Pride, 2. Envy, 3. Anger, 4. Lust, 5. Gluttony, 6. Avarice and 7. Sloth.

For men, the order was: 1. Lust, 2. Gluttony, 3. Sloth, 4. Anger, 5. Pride 6, Envy and 7. Greed.

“Men and women sin in different ways,” Msgr. Wojciech Giertych, theologian to the papal household, wrote in L’Osservatore Romano,” BBC reported.

Added Msgr. Giertych, “When you look at vices from the point of view of the difficulties they create you find that men experiment in a different way from women.”

One caveat about the BBC report: While the two lists of female and male propensities for serious sin seem reasonable and there’s no reason to suspect BBC misquoted the L’Osservatore Romano article, the second half of the BBC report repeats the ludicrous claims circulated last year in some media outlets that the Vatican has redefined the seven deadly sins.

Those claims were based on a misinterpretation of an interview last year with Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, the regent of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary at the Vatican. In the interview, Bishop Girotti itemized seven areas of “social sins” that have become serious problems in the contemporary world.

The areas included problems such as life-destroying medical research, drug abuse, environmental pollution and excessive wealth.

But the Vatican never suggested Bishop Girotti’s list was an “update” or “replacement” for the traditional list of seven deadly sins first itemized in the early centuries of the Church. The interpretation of the creation of a new “list” was and is a media fiction.