A few questions:
Will the pope disarm his Swiss Guard since they carry weapons of lethal force?
Will he apologize for the many torture executions committed under the "chair of Peter?"
Where are the leftists now on "separation of church and state?" Oh, how short their memories. I thought you can't legislate morality.
The Catholic Church operates on the “one man, one vote” doctrine. The Pope is the one man who has the one vote.
Catholic Derangement Syndrome!
Let me guess what comes next. Abortion is to be considered “humane” and even “necessary” if it allows a woman to better utilize her skills and economic power in a post-rational democratic polity.
Is the Pope Catholic?
Oh, right, maybe this was a mistranslation.
If the churches decides to stop burning people at the stake, that’s their choice.
But if a nation state decides that executing a murderer is a proper way to defend society against further violence from that murderer, I’m not sure why the Church feels it should get involved.
1. It presumes that our justice system, unlike any other human endeavor, is perfect. Yet we see examples of post conviction evidence exonerating men presumed guilty and sent to prison. There was recently a man in California released after 40 years in prison after a detective reported evidence of his innocence to the DA. Certainly we have executed innocent people.
2. For those who are truly guilty, it usurps any possibility for them to exercise repentance.
That doesn't mean I don't feel disgust at some of the crimes we read about and, from an emotional standpoint, wouldn't feel impelled to render the ultimate punishment. Emotions, however, are not an appropriate guide to sound policy.
The biggest one is that I have absolutely ZERO faith in the integrity of the U.S. justice system -- including judges, jurors, and especially (in light of what we've seen in Washington over the last 18 months) law enforcement officers and prosecutors. I'll accept an imperfect criminal justice process as an inevitable flaw of the human condition, but the finality of a death sentence has always been a real problem for me.
Perhaps this pope doesn’t know that if the Romans didn’t have the death penalty in 33 AD, there would be no Christianity today.
Bergoglio is a heretic and an apostate and, frankly, he only wants to outlaw the death penalty because he knows he deserves it himself.
Matthew 10:29 and John 19:10-11 indicate that death penalty authority comes from G-d. So let’s see if G-d complies with pope. ;^)
What about the inviolability and dignity of the victim(s)? Guess that isn't as important to these jackwagons.