The consistent and clear teaching of the Church is that capital punishment is OK in certain cases.
The pope says it is wrong in all cases.
He is contradicting the teaching of the Church that was foolish enough to make him pope.
>>He is contradicting the teaching of the Church that was foolish enough to make him pope.<<
Catholic traditionalists who rejected the pronouncements of the Second Vatican Council, myself included, rightly predicted that it marked the beginning of an ongoing worldwide effort by entrenched leftist ideologues to undermine the dogmatic foundations of the Faith first preached by Jesus Christ and his Apostles over 2,000 years ago. The imposter now seated on the throne of St. Peter is the contemporary manifestation of that ongoing effort.