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Pope Francis Lauds Gavin Newsom for Moratorium on Death Penalty
Breitbart ^ | 05/23/2024 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

Posted on 05/23/2024 9:47:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

ROME — Pope Francis congratulated California governor Gavin Newsom for his refusal to carry out the death penalty and for California’s leadership in fighting climate change, the governor’s office reported.

“I was struck by how he immediately brought up the issue of the death penalty and how proud he was of the work we’re doing in California,” Newsom said after a May 16 meeting with the pontiff in the Vatican. “I was struck by that because I wasn’t anticipating that, especially in the context of this convening.”

Shortly after his inauguration in 2019, Newsom issued an executive order imposing a temporary moratorium on the death penalty and ordered the dismantling of the state’s execution chambers at San Quentin State Prison.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: babykiller; deathpenaltyl; francis; moratorium; newsom
Commie Francis is at it again.
1 posted on 05/23/2024 9:47:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Jesus, Just Kill them all and let GOD sort em out.


3 posted on 05/23/2024 9:51:02 AM PDT by algore
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To: ChicagoConservative27

According to democrats, it’s to kill the unborn, but unconscionable to kill a murderer. Makes sense.../s


4 posted on 05/23/2024 9:54:15 AM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If he cared so much about death why does he host his abortionist buddies at the Vatican and never mention it?

Go ahead I’m waiting …………….


5 posted on 05/23/2024 9:54:52 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only reason a pope should be in the same room with Newsom (and Pelosi, Biden, etc all of which have met the pope multiple times) is to remind that their support of abortion is wrong and puts the church in scandal.

Publicly meeting with them implies support, while they grossly violate doctrine regarding morality.


6 posted on 05/23/2024 9:56:31 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The death penalty for perfectly innocent unborn is still in effect.


7 posted on 05/23/2024 10:03:44 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Really??!!

Has Newsom outlawed abortion?


8 posted on 05/23/2024 10:04:23 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course. By referendum in 2016 here in liberal CA the People exercised their sovereign will and determined to retain, indeed expedite, capital punishment. Kudos to Newsom from Francis for defying the unequivocal will of the people. Natch


9 posted on 05/23/2024 10:05:37 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is the Pope cutting a Presidential campaign ad for Newsome too?


10 posted on 05/23/2024 10:06:41 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Deport the criminals to the Vatican. Let Frankie guard them.


11 posted on 05/23/2024 10:10:07 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: algore

frank, pick up the pink courtesy phone. The 4th reich folks need to talk to you.


12 posted on 05/23/2024 10:17:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sorry, God already decided this issue (Gen. 9:5-6)

“And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.”

The reason for the death penalty is not for revenge or punishment, but out of reverence for the image of God. And, but the way, this applies to abortion as well.


13 posted on 05/23/2024 10:39:49 AM PDT by impactplayer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WHEN WAS R+THE LAST TIME ANYONE IN CALIF was OUT TO DEATH?

I am pretty sure it is OVER 40 years.

NEWSOM isn’t doing ANYTHING NEW.
The POPE is an IDIOT.


14 posted on 05/23/2024 1:30:29 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: volare737

Well, it makes sense. The DNC is the party of crime. Newborns could go either way. A convicted criminal has a high %age of voting democrat.


15 posted on 05/23/2024 1:32:43 PM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: algore

Yup. His arrival will stop the left wing agenda dead flat on its face.


16 posted on 05/23/2024 3:46:53 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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