By James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing - We now have the “ism” and the “phobia” sins, the general category sins by which we can judge (“Who am I to judge?”) whole groups of human beings as sinful just for being what they are… One can apparently contract these newer and terrible vices – racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia – without ever committing an actual sin in the older sense of the term.