[aspiring.hillbilly]

"2. Urging really, really, really strongly that we don't impose the penalty is not the same thing as saying the penalty is wrong."

Why why advocate for leniency for evil cold blooded merciless killers when there is so much that could be done to assist the innocent victims? I don't see the church taking up a collection for widows and children of murder victims? No, let them wave anti-death penalty placards every time a execution is taking place. That is tantamount and equivalent to saying the death penalty is wrong, the weasel wording not withstanding. This blasphemous nonsense entered the Chatecism in 1995 reversing 2000 years of the church taking the correct biblical stand...

[siunevada]

No, let them wave anti-death penalty placards every time a execution is taking place. That is tantamount and equivalent to saying the death penalty is wrong, the weasel wording not withstanding.

Strongly disagree. Pretending that placard wavers are authoritative teachers of Catholic doctrine is incorrect.

Support for a prompt application of the death penalty is not outside Catholic teaching. They never say the penalty is wrong.