[Catholicguy]

It was precisely this "development of doctrine" that was condemned after Humanae Vitae was issued. Were we not told, in 1968, that, because the teaching had been consistent from the beginning, that that was the main reason to continue believing in the evils of contraception?

Now, after a constant teaching on the morality of capital punishment, millenia of consistency are tossed over the side, based on circumstances. Did the Church, as one wag put it, "Move from one certainty to another?"

CG, your argument "from authority" doesn't work, no matter how hard you try to make it. It didn't work for Paul VI, and it won't work here

Sinkspur, you are doomed to head for your grave whining over the Pope not blessing contraception. Deal with it

[sinkspur]

Sinkspur, you are doomed to head for your grave whining over the Pope not blessing contraception. Deal with it

Can't address the discrepancy, huh?

Figures.

I'd be really interested in knowing how you resolve this change in death penalty "teaching," based on changed circumstances.

Was the Church wrong before and is suddenly right now?