[dighton]

Fr. Ortman: This has always been my belief, and in it I stand firm. This necessarily means that I am against the sin of taking life by acts of abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment.

Stupid question: when did capital punishment become a sin?

[Notwithstanding]

The Catechsim tells us that capital punishment can be moral, but it warns that modern means of protecting the general population through modern prison systems make it likely that is rarely a moral action.

[Notwithstanding]

In any event, abortion and captial punishment are not of equal import as societal problems. Abortions happen at a rate that makes one sick when one dwells on it. Capital Punishment almost NEVER occurs, involves a guilty murderer, and can be moral. Whereas abortion occurs every day by the thousands, involves an innocent babe, and is NEVER moral.