[frogjerk]

but its rules owe much to its history and very little to contemporary standards of justice.

Like contemporary justice for Anders Behring Breivik - 21 years for killing 93 people. A little over 2 months per life.

[Elendur]

or modern “rights” as the right to gay marriage,
or the right to have a late-term abortion.
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probably the author thinks the Church should give
more support to “social justice”.
the religion of socialism, will cure all the evils
of the world...
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“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” Pope Benedict XVI