[ernie pantuso]

Although the Pope has personally pronounced his opposition to the death penalty, I do not believe that position is an official part of church doctrine. Correct me if I am wrong.

[madprof98]

The pope's "personal" opposition to the death penalty is not at all like the so-called Catholic politicians' occasionally professed "personal" distaste for abortion. Rather, it's a matter of Christian teaching, set forth in an encyclical and codified in the 1997 Catechism of the Catholic Church. Of course, those who favor this form of killing will immediately say, "Ah, but it's not INFALLIBLE." To which the pro-aborts will say, "And neither is the pro-life stuff since, after all, Thomas Aquinas didn't think embryos had souls." Etc. Ad nauseam. In both cases, we are dealing with cafeteria Catholics.

[ninenot]

You are correct.