Posted on 08/02/2018 7:25:10 AM PDT by fwdude
ROME - According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the death penalty now is no longer admissible under any circumstances.
The Vatican announced on Thursday Pope Francis approved changes to the compendium of Catholic teaching published under Pope John Paul II.
“The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church now says on the death penalty, adding that the Church “works with determination for its abolition worldwide.”
This is a departure from what the document, approved under Pope John Paul II in 1992, says on the matter: “Assuming that the guilty party’s identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.”
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A few questions:
Will the pope disarm his Swiss Guard since they carry weapons of lethal force?
Will he apologize for the many torture executions committed under the "chair of Peter?"
Where are the leftists now on "separation of church and state?" Oh, how short their memories. I thought you can't legislate morality.
The Catholic Church operates on the “one man, one vote” doctrine. The Pope is the one man who has the one vote.
Catholic Derangement Syndrome!
Yes, the top Catholic leaders are deranged.
Let me guess what comes next. Abortion is to be considered “humane” and even “necessary” if it allows a woman to better utilize her skills and economic power in a post-rational democratic polity.
Is the Pope Catholic?
Oh, right, maybe this was a mistranslation.
Your hate is well-known, pal!
Why not? They’ve all but capitulated on marriage.
When logic is “hate,” you are the one who needs to examine your thinking.
If the churches decides to stop burning people at the stake, that’s their choice.
But if a nation state decides that executing a murderer is a proper way to defend society against further violence from that murderer, I’m not sure why the Church feels it should get involved.
Yup. The Papacy is essentially a dictatorship, and the Pope can steer the Church in any direction he chooses.
Given his radical environmentalism, I am sure he’ll be dropping Humane Vitae soon.
I feel sorry for my fellow Catholics who think the Dubia can stop this by sending strongly-worded letters.
You and Jim Acosta......hahahhahaha
That’s my point. The RCC has no authority to execute anyone, nor to impose criminal penalties. So, are they seeking to inject their teaching into civil law?
Where are the left on this “breach of separation?”
As long as you don’t bad mouth Jack Chick, we’re good.
1. It presumes that our justice system, unlike any other human endeavor, is perfect. Yet we see examples of post conviction evidence exonerating men presumed guilty and sent to prison. There was recently a man in California released after 40 years in prison after a detective reported evidence of his innocence to the DA. Certainly we have executed innocent people.
2. For those who are truly guilty, it usurps any possibility for them to exercise repentance.
That doesn't mean I don't feel disgust at some of the crimes we read about and, from an emotional standpoint, wouldn't feel impelled to render the ultimate punishment. Emotions, however, are not an appropriate guide to sound policy.
I know, I was responding tongue in cheek. Although I disagree vehemently with most of Catholic teaching, Chick was a whacko.
If “we can’t be sure” about exacting the death penalty, then we can’t be sure about incarcerating someone for life either.
Most opposition to the death penalty is convenient cover for leniency against any criminals. Look at Mumia. He wasn’t executed and yet there is a massive campaign to have him freed although he executed a police officer in cold blood. Same with Charles Manson. His supporters were numerous, horrifyingly so.
I don’t regard people who have honest disagreements with the Catholic Church as being “anti-Catholic” necessarily.
The biggest one is that I have absolutely ZERO faith in the integrity of the U.S. justice system -- including judges, jurors, and especially (in light of what we've seen in Washington over the last 18 months) law enforcement officers and prosecutors. I'll accept an imperfect criminal justice process as an inevitable flaw of the human condition, but the finality of a death sentence has always been a real problem for me.
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