Posted on 02/28/2023 4:57:20 PM PST by ebb tide
The dissident priest made his comments after a man convicted of murders in two separate incidents was put to death in Florida last week.
Heretical pro-LGBT Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin has called for conservative Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is Catholic, to be denied Communion because he supports the death penalty.
Last week, the Republican governor signed the death warrant for a convict on charges of a second murder committed after the man escaped from a life sentence imposed for his first murder.
In response to the execution of Donald Dillbeck, Martin used the issue to imply that DeSantis was dissenting from Catholic teaching on the death penalty and should therefore be refused Communion in what appears to be a tit-for-tat with Catholic bishops who insist that pro-abortion politicians and those who engage in sexual acts outside of marriage, such as those living a homosexual lifestyle — and whom Martin continually defends — may not receive Holy Communion.
Taking to Twitter, his preferred pulpit, Martin wrote, “Many US bishops have said that Catholic politicians who don’t follow church teachings, especially on life issues, should be denied Communion. Will they call for @GovRonDeSantis to be denied Communion? Church teaching is that the death penalty is ‘inadmissible.’”
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While Bergoglio reverses the Church's teaching on the just use of the death penalty, he's calling for the decriminalization of laws against sodomy.
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I must agree with father freakshow..
But for a different reason.
An illegitimate and corrupt government like ours has no moral authority to kill anyone.
Fr. James Martin must not know the difference between killing innocent babies, and killing a guilty man or woman. The unborn are innocent.
Fr. Martin should know that killing babies is wrong.
Following the law after a trial by judge and jury is really really not the same as killing the innocent for your convenience.
The church used to be big on executions, had that inquisition thing down.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
This DEMON has said that politicians who support abortion should not be denied communion.
Killing innocent babies? Well, that’s between you and God. Killing brutal murderers? Wait a minute. No communion for you
Being a former Protestant I’ve had to struggle with my stance on the death penalty. One rationale is that Christ himself was accepting of capital punishment, although there’s no Bible verse to support that. I’ve always been anti-abortion, so that’s never been an issue. I tacitly go along with being anti-capital punishment, but frequently find myself advocating it for rhetorical purposes to essentially say a murderer should receive the most severe of punishments. Then again, I’m not upset when a murderer receives life in prison instead of the death sentence. That I consider a far worse punishment.
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Jesus to be denied communion for supporting the death penalty...
God declared capital punishment for certain offenses. God also commanded Israelites to execute other peoples, and in some cases, all of them and their animals. Its not like He was suddenly all wrong about it, and changed His mind.
Plenty of Demoxrats support the death penalty, including, last time I checked, President Biden. Why doesn’t he think Biden should be denied?
Does this mean pro-abortion should be denied Communion?
Civil authorities did that.
The Torah permits the death penalty for some offenses.
It’s that pesky New Testament thingy that gets in the way for Catholics.
Correct!
This freak show Martin oughtta be lit up at the stake!
Let’s be clear. Catholics do not forbid the death penalty.
Where does it say in the NT that capital punishment is wrong?
The issue in the Catholic Church is odd. Pope JP II put it in the Catachism and it was basically a new thing and then they had to re-write that section because it has never been a teaching of the Church that capital punishment is wrong.
They based on the necessity for CP being based on social self-defense, which they felt was covered by better prisons, but that is not the only basis for it and so I remain personally not against it, overall.
Biden definitely supports the death penalty (for innocent babies, that is).
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