[Catholic Caucus] USCCB Calls Evil What God Ordained As A Tool For Civil Order

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

[Catholic Caucus] USCCB Calls Evil What God Ordained As A Tool For Civil Order

Last week I posted how many leftists are putting their souls into jeopardy by calling evil what God has ordained as goods.  The USCCB continues down that slippery path.

Today Attorney General William Barr has announced that the US Department of Justice will resume the federal death penalty.  Right on cue the USCCB is pitching its hissy fit.  A telling phrase in the Catholic News Agency piece is this: "Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 2267 on the death penalty was updated in 2018 with a statement from Pope Francis, calling the death penalty “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person."

NEWS FLASH!  No one, not even a pope, can change Church teaching.  The pope is to safeguard the Deposit of Faith, not mutate it according to his whims and fancies.  Other popes throughout the centuries have upheld the legitimacy of the death penalty.  Pope John Paul II, in paragraph 56 of Evangelium Vitae, while making his personal disapproval known, also upheld the licity of the death penalty.

Any statement that claims that the death penalty is inherently evil is rank heresy.  It doesn't matter who utters it.

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Any statement that claims that the death penalty is inherently evil is rank heresy. It doesn't matter who utters it.

[impactplayer]

Amen! The death penalty was initiated by God just after the flood, and God gave the reason: “for in the image of God has God made man.”
‘nuf said!

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Thoughts?

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Unfortunately our bishops and pope have squandered moral clarity to the point we have to debate such things after 2000 years of obvious.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The way the Catechism of Pope St. John Paul II had it was just fine: basically, that the State does NOT commit murder when it subjects murderers to execution --- but at the same time, the death penalty is not mandatory. At the very same time that God instituted the death penalty (Genesis) He also protected the first murderer, Cain, from execution.

As an RCIA teacher, I teach my students from the Bible and this (JPII) Catechism. I've already told my pastor I will NOT teach the "revised" paragraph by Pope Francis, since it contradicts the Church's perennial teaching, and therefore the revision cannot be considered authentic doctrine. My pastor is OK with that.

[D Rider]

Gen 9:6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.