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Pro-abortion Andrew Cuomo pushes bill to end death penalty in ‘solidarity’ with Pope Francis
LifeSite News ^ | August 3, 2018 | Calvin Freiburger

Posted on 08/04/2018 12:37:28 PM PDT by ebb tide

ALBANY, August 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The left-wing governor of New York announced Thursday that he will promote legislation to abolish the death penalty in his state, invoking Pope Francis’ controversial new change to the 1992 Catechism promulgated by Pope St. John Paul II on the subject.

Earlier that day, the Pope issued a papal decree revising n. 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to declare that a “new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state,” and therefore “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” It also declared that the Church “works with determination for its abolition worldwide.”

The passage previously read that authorities should limit themselves to “non-lethal means [...] to defend and protect people's safety from the aggressor” and “cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity ‘are very rare, if not practically nonexistent,’” but granted that “traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty” when absolutely necessary.

Many Catholics have expressed alarm for what they call a doctrinal error that distorts Catholic teaching, while secular media and the political Left have celebrated the announcement.

“The death penalty is morally indefensible and has no place in the 21st century,” New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted Thursday. 

“By declaring the death penalty inadmissible in all cases and working to end the practice globally, Pope Francis is ushering in a more righteous world for us all,” Cuomo announced Thursday. 

“Today, in solidarity with Pope Francis and in honor of my father [former Gov. Mario Cuomo], I will be advancing legislation to remove the death penalty -- and its ugly stain in our history -- from State law once and for all,” he declared. He did not yet identify a specific piece of legislation he was backing.

The elder Cuomo vetoed legislation enacting capital punishment every year of his 12-year tenure as governor, but Republican Gov. George Pataki finally signed it in 1995, ABC-13 reports. His son’s stand is more symbolic than practical, however, as the New York Supreme Court struck down capital punishment as unconstitutional in 2004, and the state has not executed anyone since 1963.

Cuomo’s “solidarity” with the pope and defense of convicted murderers’ right to life stands in stark contrast to his position on abortion, which Francis has called a “violat[ion]” of “fundamental rights.” Cuomo’s pro-abortion advocacy includes permitting abortion effectively until birth, forcing taxpayers and insurance companies to pay for abortion, and a similarly-symbolic push to codify Roe v. Wade in state law.

The inconsistency did not go unnoticed on social media:



TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; andrewcuomo; antipope; capitalpunishment; cuomo; francischurch; heresy; newyork; popefranniepoo; romancatholicism
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1 posted on 08/04/2018 12:37:28 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Yeh....we just want the babies killed...not killers or rapists.


2 posted on 08/04/2018 12:38:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ebb tide

Francis is no pope, he is the ANTI POPE.

Could he be Satan himself ? It was some force of true evil that forced the rightful Pope, Benedict, from his rightful place


3 posted on 08/04/2018 12:39:38 PM PDT by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President.)
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To: ebb tide

I wonder if he’d be so pious if his daughter were raped and killed? (and no, not a threat, just a question)


4 posted on 08/04/2018 12:44:21 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: ebb tide

What he’s really thinking:

Because you Catholics are so dumb you’ll vote for me no matter what, but those feminists are what I’m afraid of - if I get them mad at me, the votes and the money are gone - you don’t know what it’s like to have feminists mad at you, I’d rather fight with a rabid hyena.

I don’t believe in heaven anyway, so why should I care about a few babies? they can’t vote! (oh, but don’t tell anyone. I get a lot of votes from Catholics.)


5 posted on 08/04/2018 12:46:40 PM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hypocritical hysteria: Manafort/Russia Probe again!)
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To: ebb tide

Has the Pope even commented on the half million innocent babies executed per year in this country alone? No. But a few murderers executed per year do get his sympathy.


6 posted on 08/04/2018 12:53:49 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ebb tide

Save serial killers! Kill babies!


7 posted on 08/04/2018 12:59:14 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: ebb tide

Save serial killers! Kill babies!


8 posted on 08/04/2018 12:59:58 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: BobL

“Pro-abortion Andrew Cuomo pushes bill to end death penalty in ‘solidarity’ with Pope Francis”

Feeling that rope around your neck Andy?


9 posted on 08/04/2018 1:45:43 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ebb tide

Last I heard from creep Francis he lisping about how old lady Europe needed young Muslim men to come fertilize it or some other such crap.


10 posted on 08/04/2018 1:49:27 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q Tards and Laugh!)
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To: ebb tide
“The death penalty is morally indefensible and has no place in the 21st century,” New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweeted Thursday."


11 posted on 08/04/2018 1:56:15 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ebb tide

Gee, what about separation of Church and State?      < /sarcasm >
12 posted on 08/04/2018 2:13:53 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Proabortionists: army of Satan


13 posted on 08/04/2018 2:52:59 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Sacajaweau

Sure, it’s that human dignity for people who didn’t give a rip about the humanity or the dignity of their victims.

Best bumper sticker I saw recently on abortion said, “It’s easy to be pro-abortion when you’re not the one being killed.”


14 posted on 08/04/2018 3:19:04 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: WashingtonFire
Could he be Satan himself ? It was some force of true evil that forced the rightful Pope, Benedict, from his rightful place

That would be false prophet, the one working with and supporting the anti-christ with a one world religion.

15 posted on 08/04/2018 3:20:27 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; The Mayor; Steely Tom; Chode; lysie; mass55th

NY ping


16 posted on 08/04/2018 3:22:32 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: ebb tide
People forget that it was Almighty God who instituted the death penalty - from the start.

    Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind. (Genesis 9:6)

Too bad fake Catholics like Cuomo don't really believe in God and what He declares! They think they know better than Him. Kill the innocent and spare the guilty.

17 posted on 08/04/2018 3:22:36 PM PDT by boatbums (Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy he saved us.)
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To: BlessedBeGod

Separation of what?????


18 posted on 08/04/2018 3:22:59 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: BobL
I wonder if he’d be so pious if his daughter were raped and killed?

He sounds just the type who would be ... one from the "anti-death penalty, no matter if it were his own relative" crowd.
19 posted on 08/04/2018 3:38:30 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: ebb tide

So if you’re a violent criminal, a murderer even, you shouldn’t be put to death, but if you’re an innocent preborn child, you should?


20 posted on 08/04/2018 4:10:34 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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