Aug. 2, 2018
ROME — Pope Francis has declared the death penalty inadmissible in all cases “because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” the Vatican announced on Thursday, in a shift in Roman Catholic teaching on the issue.
Francis, who has spoken out against capital punishment before — including in 2015 in an address to Congress — added the change to the Catechism of the Catholic Church — the compendium of Catholic beliefs.
The pontiff, who is the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Catholics, said the church would work “with determination” for the abolition of capital punishment worldwide.
Pope Declares Death Penalty Inadmissible in All Cases
Pope Che is at it again. As far as I know, he never said a word when Iran bombed the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and then a few years later a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires and then the government of Argentina became implicated in the murder of a special prosecutor in this matter on two or three years ago.
The idea that someone like Raul Castro, for example, does not deserve the death penalty for all of the murders of innocent people that he himself carried out or ordered other people to carry out is repulsive in the extreme. I don't believe that Pope Che has the power to absolve Raul Castro or anyone else.
Pope: Abolish Death Penalty
Discussion in 'Other Christian Denominations' started by church mouse guy, Aug 2, 2018.
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The law calling for the death penalty for murder was given to Noah, not Moses, so I am not sure that two witnesses are required.
The Pope is an extreme leftist, a Peronist who never spoke against the leftist bloodbath in his native Argentina. As far as I know this Pope never spoke against the murder of Jews in Buenos Aires when Iran bombed the Israeli Embassy and a couple of years later a Jewish community center. -
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The Gospel Coalition's Aaron Menikoff remembers the wise counsel of Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Capitol Hill Baptist Church:
Personal Memories of Senator Mark O. Hatfield (1922-2011)
"After two weeks in DC I found a church, Capitol Hill....Mark Dever was the new pastor....I soon discovered that the Senator and his wife were members....Hatfield was a strong believer...he was convinced that evangelicals too often used Christian arguments to dogmatically support positions over which Christians could, in good conscience differ."
Oregon May Vote on Ending Death Penalty
"Kitzhaber and Hatfield, two of Oregon's most popular political figures, have lent their names to an effort to ask voters to outlaw capital punishment in November."
"Hatfield, who has opposed the death penalty throughout his political career, believes it is time for Oregon to revisit the issue, especially in light of questions that have been raised about capital punishment in other states." -
Karen Swallow-Prior of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission on being Consistently Pro-Life:
thegospelcoalition.org/article/karen-swallow-prior-on-how-christians-can-become-more-consistently-pro-life/
christianitytoday.com/amyjuliabecker/2011/november/why-i-am-pro-life-by-karen-swallow-prior.html
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What do you do with Genesis 9:6?
It is time to abolish ERLC forever. However, it may be too late if the SBC is already lost to liberals like Greear. -
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Actually, I think that the paucity of executions that we have in this country and the number of years that an inmate spends on death row evidences that we have stringent laws for conviction and execution but I am not an attorney. I do agree that DNA evidence is ironclad. For example, if OJ cut himself while killing his ex and her new boyfriend, then his blood at the scene of the crime would require some explaining, wouldn't it? Even more so if the victims' blood were on his own body or clothing. Of course, OJ was found innocent and the culprit was never found or convicted, huh? -
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