[ebb tide]

Now, as you may have noticed, Chaput gave a speech the other day expressing dismay at the Vatican’s recent synod on the family for sowing confusion among the faithful. “I was very disturbed by what happened,” he said. “I think confusion is of the devil, and I think the public image that came across was one of confusion.”

[ebb tide]

Ping

[ConorMacNessa]

Could he please express the same compassion for the innocent babies being slaughtered on a quotidian basis in the abattoirs of planned Parenthood and other Death Merchants?


"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Last Dakotan]

I have my priorities.

I'll worry be about the guilty being put to death after I worry about the innocent.

[fidelis]

With all due respect to the current Holy Father, the constant teaching of the Church has been (and is) that the state does have a right to impose the death penalty. Pope Francis is entitled to his opinion, but it doesn't change the teaching of the Church. If he were to make an ex cathedra statement proclaiming that states have no right or responsibility in that regard, that would be something. But he won't because he can't. St. Pope John Paul had similar personal views, but he never presumed to impose his views on the Church. The Scriptures are clear and Catholic teaching does not change. A Pope's particular opinions can be listened to with due respect, but they aren't binding on anyone.

[Last Dakotan]

Any word from the current Archbishop of Denver?

[BlessedBeGod]

It’s of the devil for the Archbishop of Philadelphia not to clear up the confusion that’s been sown.

It's not Archbishop Chaput's responsibility to clear up confusion that Francis had created.

[NKP_Vet]

“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”

Ground control to Pope Francis. I follow the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which states that Catholics can have differing opinions on the Death Penalty and the Death Penalty is not forbidden by the Catholic Church. Maybe Pope Francis should try reading the Catechism on the use of the Death Penalty and a whole slew of subjects he’s not familiar with! His opinion is no better than mine and we differ!

[Arthur McGowan]

Others on this thread have repeated the truth that the Catholic Church does not categorically condemn the death penalty.

It should be borne in mind that in many countries—Muslim countries above all—that the death penalty is imposed with reckless abandon. And this is to be condemned.

This Pope is one that we cannot look to for accurate statements of Catholic teaching.

The best course of action for the individual is to pray for the Pope, pray for the Church, and wait until the Cardinals choose a Pope who is qualified for the job.

[piusv]

I’m still confused..lol.

Did Francis clarify or not? And if he did, does this mean he’ll be clarifying a host of other comments he has made since he was elected? Or does this mean that this needed clarification and everything else was meant to be confusing (and he therefore leaves it that way)?