Pope Francis Attempt To Reverse Catholic Social Teachings And Dogmatics On The Death Penalty Begins
Video message to Death Penalty conference – Vatican Radio
The USCCB Jumps On Our Liberal Pope’s Bandwagon
The Doctors Of The Church On The Pro- Death Penalty Position Of The Catholic Church – St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas
http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/n012rp_DeathPenalty_Aquinas.htm
The Traditional Case for Capital Punishment Also Includes The Infallible Council Of Trent – The Catholic Thing
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2015/03/16/the-traditional-case-for-capital-punishment/
A Matter of Justice A Truly Catholic Look at Capital Punishment
http://www.catholicapologetics.info/morality/deathpenalty/punishment.htm
Pope Pius XII
Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument,
‘that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life. In the Pope’s words,
Even when there is question of the execution of a condemned man, the State does not dispose of the individual’s right to life. In this case it is reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned person of the enjoyment of life in expiation of his crime when, by his crime, he has already dispossessed himself of his right to life.’
Fr. Hardon – Capital Punishment – New Testament Teaching As Well As Both 5th and 9th Century Magisterial Teachings
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Sacred_Scripture/Sacred_Scripture_014.htm
The War of the Straitjackets -“Progressives” who claim that society must progressively evolve away from strict moral laws http://www.returntoorder.org/2016/06/the-war-of-the-straitjackets-2/?utm_source=sm-rto&utm_medium=email&utm_content=RTOE0220&utm_campaign=rto_newsletter
Aside from the consistency of the licit nature of the Death Penalty in Catholic Social teaching it was supported in the codified writing of the Doctor Saints of the Church, Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Augustine – (the latter the new Church’s primary model no less ) along with the Catholic Doctrinal re-stating of Popes: Nicholas the 1st – and Innocent the 3rd and Saint Pope Leo The Great – ( Leo the 1st)
Were they all wrong – ?! Should their writings be burnt ? How will it now jeopardize other Catholic Dogmas for non-Catholics?
Pope Leo The Great
Pope Nicholas The 1st
Pope Nicholas The 3rd
Pope Pius XII
