Posted on 06/14/2019 6:40:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
Only eight nays and three abstentions versus 194 yeas. What a pathetic bunch of francispuppets.
What will they vote on next? The Bergoglian “Our Father”?
This is very deeply discouraging.
And Bp Robert Barron! Gahhhh. I’d thought he’d be one who would know better.
Bishop Barron....the same man that believes that we can hope that all men will be saved and that hell is empty.
Why am I not surprised?
So we have eight faithful bishops in the United States—about what I estimated.
I have a lot more innocent lives that are being terminated to worry about before I can get to worrying about the guilty.
+1
In ALL my local churches being against capital punishment is co-equal with being against abortion. The only thing holding them back has been the Catechism and the Bible. This means it’ll change from merely OK to vote for pro-abortion/anti-death penalty democrats (because of socialism -preference for the poor) to it’s good because they’re more moral than republicans.
Ask them if this means that Jesus Christ should not have been crucified.
Now it’ll be “Our Francis, who art in heaven...”.
“The U.S. bishops’ passage about the death penalty states that “today it is no longer just nor reasonable to apply the death penalty,” stressing that it is not needed to protect society and its application is “inequitable and flawed.”
The new passage also says the death penalty does not promote a culture of life and, quoting the universal catechism, adds that it is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person” and the church will work “with determination for its abolition worldwide.”
Unfortunately these so called “pillars of the Church” don’t live in the real world. They’re a bunch of windbags.
If God is against the death penalty why did Jesus pay it for us?
I must admit that capital punishment is one area where I have mellowed with age.
When I was younger I favored the death penalty because I could not imagine a more cruel punishment than being locked in a sticking cage for the rest of my life with no possibility of parole.
Now that I am older, I favor life imprisonment because I can not imagine a more cruel punishment than being locked in a sticking cage for the rest of my life with no possibility of parole.
Isn’t wisdom a wonderful thing?
So are they going to now make it a mortal sin if you happen to disagree with them. Utter foolishness.
Don’t hold your breath on this position... Francis has already stated HIS opposition to life imprisonment as being EQUAL to the Death Penalty. Before long... we’ll be rationalizing the evil criminals rehabilitation through crooked lawyers.
NO civil law is perfect. (because of crooked lawyers) NO civil law can hold back evil and murderous people from committing the same crime against INNOCENT people. This has ALWAYS been the reason for the death penalty. It has always been used for deterrence and further atrocities committed by the same evil people.
We don’t live in a perfect world, Francis, and we NEVER will. Maybe what’s next is that self defense with a deadly weapon will be sinful. God help us!
“Unfortunately these so called “pillars of the Church” don’t live in the real world. “
These so called pillars of the faith are the same guys who have covered up awful atrocities against the weak and innocent (pedophilia, ephebophilia, sodomy ... shall I go on)
The Bishops are for the most part the problem, not the solution. The majority are wolves praying on their own flocks.
These bishops are not Catholic -— on this point, and it is not a small one. It is mighty depressing that only 8 voted “Nay.” It was flat-out wrong for them to just toss this off, as if they were just turning over one card in the pack -— when actually, they are throwing the whole deck to the wind.
Barron is an uber modernist.
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