[E. Pluribus Unum]

Says the man surrounded by armed guards.

[dfwgator]

Come back, Benedict.

[Arm_Bears]

This guy, the Pope, is getting old.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This guy is definitely not an intellectual giant.

[Gamecock]

denounced what he called a "penal populism" that promises to solve society's problems by punishing crime instead of pursuing social justice.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

Hey Charlie Manson, the Pope is your guy!

[molson209]

Living at the Vatican takes these dopes out of the Real World

[PetroniusMaximus]

And the next item on the liberal agenda checklist is...

[Pearls Before Swine]

You’ve got to have one or the other.

Some people are just too crazy and violent to be out and about, no matter how long their timeout. Remember last week, when a guy got out after 30 years, and killed his mother after the welcome home party she threw for him?

[truth_seeker]

Nothing new. The Catholic church has opposed the death penalty for as long as I remember.

[mrsmel]

Good grief. He just keeps giving them more ammunition.

[alphadoggie]

Sorry, Pope. You’re flat-out wrong about life imprisonment.

[Cicero]

As Robert Heinlein used to say, MYOB.

[Bryanw92]

>>”The corrupt one does not perceive his own corruption. It is a little like what happens with bad breath: someone who has it hardly ever realizes it; other people notice and have to tell him,” the pope said. “Corruption is an evil greater than sin. More than forgiveness, this evil needs to be cured.”

So, the innocent people who want to lock up criminals are corrupt, but the criminals themselves are the “victim” of poor social justice? What a Progressive moron!

[TexasGator]

“The pope said criminal penalties should not apply to children, and should be waived or limited for the elderly,”

Would like to see thousands of old geezers (me included) set free to correct some of our problems without fear of criminal penalties ....

[thorvaldr]

Only a guy with a 24 hour armed guard would think it’s wrong to not let murderers back out on the street.

[Alex Murphy]

Pope Francis called for abolition of the death penalty as well as life imprisonment, and denounced what he called a "penal populism" that promises to solve society's problems by punishing crime instead of pursuing social justice. "It is impossible to imagine that states today cannot make use of another means than capital punishment to defend peoples' lives from an unjust aggressor," the pope said Oct. 23 in a meeting with representatives of the International Association of Penal Law. "All Christians and people of good will are thus called today to struggle not only for abolition of the death penalty, whether it be legal or illegal and in all its forms, but also to improve prison conditions, out of respect for the human dignity of persons deprived of their liberty. And this, I connect with life imprisonment," he said. "Life imprisonment is a hidden death penalty." The pope noted that the Vatican recently eliminated life inprisonment from its own penal code.

In Before The Pope Was Mistranslated Again

[tennmountainman]

Maybe The Pope can shelter killers at the Vatican, especially serial
killers. All they need is a little understanding.

[hal ogen]

Yes...send all the “fallen” to live in the country of Vatican City.

[RightGeek]

I wonder if the pope has met any serial killers?