Vatican Official: Death Penalty ‘Never Justified’ as Legitimate Defense

Breitbart ^ | 11/29/18 | Thomas D. Williams

[sparklite2]

Oh, I am quite in favor of the death penalty. Further, I think executions should be televised, not done behind closed doors. If the DP is to have any preventive effect, it needs to be as it used to be ... public. And if public executions are too shocking for the citizenry, maybe the state shouldn’t be acting in their pearl-clutching stead.

[skr]

Does this person mean as in preventing further murders by the convicted? Otherwise I don’t understand capital punishment as a defense. Perhaps something lost in translation?

[boatbums]

It depends on if it is something that is declared "ex cathedra", or "from the chair". If Pope Francis, or any pope, declares that it is a matter of faith that ALL must receive and hold to, then it would be a mortal sin to dissent. That seems to be the deciding factor though we can, and have, pointed out other ex cathedra declarations that were subsequently overruled or "reformulated positively" (i.e., extra Ecclesiam nulla salus).

[metmom]

So now the Vatican is presuming to sit in judgment on God.

How arrogant of them.

[metmom]

Is this one of those doctrines that Catholics are not allowed to dissent against, or are they allowed to believe different?

Who knows?

I suppose it depends on who you talk to.

[GingisK]

The death penalty is a surgical procedure to remove a tumor.

[G Larry]

First, I believe Romans clearly support the death penalty (It is good to fear the sword of the state).

The Vatican is concerned more about the rest of the world's use of the death penalty, without justice.

While here in America, we have seen way too much evidence of ambitious D.A.s framing innocent people and placing them on death row, only to be proven innocent by DNA evidence years later.

[onedoug]

Nuts