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Tag Archives: capital punishment
@JamesMartinSJ attacks Justice Barrett, Laura Ingraham replies, @FatherZ adds more.
And there’s this. The Supreme Court of the United States – presently with all the seats filled (thanks to Pres. Trump and the GOP lead Senate) – has allowed the execution of a convicted rapist murderer. The sentence was carried … Continue reading
Posted in Jesuits, The Drill
Tagged Amy Coney Barrett, capital punishment, death penalty, Fr. James Martin SJ, Laura Ingraham, SCOTUS
36 Comments
Non-Catholics and Catholics alike wonder about changes to CCC 2276 on death penalty
Non-Catholics and Catholics alike are drilling into the decision of Pope Francis to change Catechism of the Catholic Church 2267, which now says that capital punishment is “inadmissible”. He does not say that it is intrinsically evil, which would be crystal clear. … Continue reading
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Dennis Prager
26 Comments
Controversy over the Holy Father’s substitution of CCC 2267 continues.
The controversy over the Holy Father’s substitution of CCC par. 2267 continues. Keep in mind that, while the teaching of CCC 2267 concerns the death penalty, the real problem is that the Pope seems to have contradicted what the Church has always taught … Continue reading
Posted in SSPX, The Drill
Tagged capital punishment, CCC 2267, death penalty, Edward Feser, religious liberty, SSPX
27 Comments
Pius XII: coercive power, death penalty NOT “conditioned by historical circumstances” for they have “a general and abiding validity”
I was recently reminded of a 2013 article at Crisis by Fr. George Rutler about capital punishment” “Hanging Concentrates The Mind”. Among other things in his piece, Rutler writes of the guy I wrote about yesterday, Mastro Titta, the official … Continue reading
“HEY! Wait for me!” Latin of change to CCC 2267 about capital punishment now available.
You have to wonder who is running things. Some of you of a certain age will remember going to the circus and seeing the classic clown car. A tiny car would zoom out into the light and an impossible, Newtonian … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged capital punishment, CCC 2267, death penalty, Latin
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QUAERITUR: If something is in the Catechism, do I have to give in, believe it even though it is different from what the Catechism taught before?
I am getting questions from lots people about Pope Francis’ move to change the Church’s doctrine concerning capital punishment. QUAERITUR: If this is in the Catechism, do I have to give in and believe it even though this is different … Continue reading
Pope Francis changed the Catechism about the death penalty. What next? Wherein Fr. Z opines.
I wonder if the recent move of the Holy Father to change the text – the teaching of the Church – of the paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church about the death penalty will generate enough buzz to … Continue reading
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, capital punishment, Catechism of the Catholic Church, death penalty, development of doctrine, John Henry Newman, Juan Manuel de Rosas, lived experience, Pope Francis, Realities are more important than ideas
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PODCAzT 158: Catholicism and Capital Punishment
Pope Francis recently made statements about capital punishment which are the cause of much discussion. While invoking “development of doctrine” he seems to contradict established Church teaching about the death penalty. It is as if His Holiness would harmonize these two statements: Capital … Continue reading
BOOKS RECEIVED: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment
Anything written by Edward Feser is reliable and worth time. He recently joined forces with Joseph M. Bessette to create a new book exploring Catholic teaching about the hotly discussed “death penalty”. James V. Schall, S.J. says of this book: … Continue reading
Posted in REVIEWS, The Campus Telephone Pole, The Drill
Tagged capital punishment, Edward Feser, Joseph M. Bessette
37 Comments
The Death Penalty – being “vindictive” in the Church’s Magisterium
Fr. George Rutler has a fascinating and mind-concentrating bit at the site of Crisis. I hope it will encourage both you and others. Go check out Crisis for sure, but lest anyone in laziness not click over there, here is … Continue reading
NCFishwrap getting it wrong about abortion and capital punishment.
Over at the National catholic Fishwrap, Jamie Manson has flung herself headlong into another error. I won’t torment you with a fisking of the whole article. Suffice it to say that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is said to have … Continue reading
