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To: ReignOfError
So how about support for capital punishment?

Abortion isn’t the only issue on which the church has a position, after all.

Do you know what the Church's position on capital punishment even is?

27 posted on 05/19/2007 4:45:34 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9
Do you know what the Church's position on capital punishment even is?
2267 The traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude, presupposing full ascertainment of the identity and responsibility of the offender, recourse to the death penalty, when this is the only practicable way to defend the lives of human beings effectively against the aggressor. "If, instead, bloodless means are sufficient to defend against the aggressor and to protect the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.

"Today, in fact, given the means at the State's disposal to effectively repress crime by rendering inoffensive the one who has committed it, without depriving him definitively of the possibility of redeeming himself, cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender 'today ... are very rare, if not practically non-existent.'[John Paul II, Evangelium vitae 56.]

Copied and pasted straight from the catechism as found at vatican.va.

37 posted on 05/19/2007 6:04:54 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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