Posted on 08/02/2018 6:47:50 AM PDT by ebb tide
Yes, and in the U.S. where we have the best protections against injustice, we’d be better off not wasting money on countless appeals, and sticking w life in prison.
Unless of course you’re a heretic, then we can burn you alive at the stake, because the after party BBQ is great.
Pope Francis calls for abolishing death penalty and life imprisonment
#NotMyPope.
Great points.
...It’s complicated, in my mind. ,
As someone who has had a close friend
A harmless medical student, studious, quiet
Wanted to be a Pediatrician
Raped, Brutalized, Shot, and Killed
And having been in the presence of the killer
I am happy to report the murderer is dead by electrocution
Having seen Justice Done
I had an immediate sense of “It Is Finished”
Don’t tell me there is no place for the death sentence
The Pope, despite what Pope Francis has done, is not an Emperor. The headlines are accurate: Pope Francis indeed has “changed the Church's teaching on the death penalty”. problem is that Pope are not supposed to change long-held teachings by fiat.
The Catholic Church is in crisis and a a state of de facto schism. Will is soon be in a state of actual schism? Stay tuned.
He is per Unam Sanctam.
I stand on my position.
#NotMyPope.
But this isn't the first change on this topic for Rome.....from the linked article:
A quarter-century ago, the church said that the death penalty was justified in cases of “extreme gravity.” Then, in 1997, Pope John Paul II narrowed the standards for when the punishment was permissible.
Scripture doesn't change.....but Rome's "Tradition" does.
Then you are committing a "mortal sin" in Roman Catholicism by ignoring Unam Sanctam.
Always amazing how Roman Catholics are quick to condemn all of us non-Roman Catholics for doing the very thing you are doing.
Simply. Amazing.
What took place is a distraction to the reality that the Church is in a cold civil war or cold schism.
I happen to be in favor of the death penalty, but I swear that is not why I am upset by this. I am deeply disturbed because there is no justification for the way Pope Francis has gone about making this change, and his having done so in this way undermines his authority, as well as the Papacy itself.
Catholics, pray for our Church.
More change....from the group that claims they’ve never changed????
So when God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament, was that "an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person"? Are we arguing that God commanded people to sin?
This is material heresy IMO.
From the church that never changes.......
Arguing that the death penalty is misused and should be avoided in typical circumstances is entirely different from arguing that it is inherently immoral.
We are in dangerous waters here.
From the Pope who departs further and further from the Faith of the Church.
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