Holy See diplomat renews call for end to capital punishment [CWN]

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Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See’s leading diplomat at UN offices in Geneva, called for the international abolition of the death penalty during a meeting of the UN Human Rights …

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Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See’s leading diplomat at UN offices in Geneva, called for the international abolition of the death penalty during a meeting of the UN Human Rights …

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I’m afraid I can’t agree with this. Whoever is doing this is a Blind Guide.
 
priestsforlife.org/magisterium/bishops/04-07ratzingerommunion.htm

“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia”.

Pope Benedict XVI (when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) in a memorandum sent to US Catholic Bishops in July 2004.
 
I’m really starting to believe that we will see the end of the death penalty in the U.S. in our lifetime.

Not sure if there’s a thread about this but this is promising:
We, the editors of four Catholic journals – America, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter and Our Sunday Visitor – urge the readers of our diverse publications and the whole U.S. Catholic community and all people of faith to stand with us and say, “Capital punishment must end.”
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Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See’s leading diplomat at UN offices in Geneva, called for the international abolition of the death penalty during a meeting of the UN Human Rights …

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I have no problem with abolishing the death penalty. I’m also not opposed to solitary confinement for life in a 3’ x 6’ concrete cell.
 
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Why? Eye for an eye isn’t really justice according to what’s right.
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Not literally no, but the church does teach that the severity of the punishment must be commensurate with the severity of the crime. Nor is it vengeance per se that the church condemns, but vengeance taken by individuals. Vengeance - which Aquinas defines as “the infliction of a penal evil on one who has sinned” is the exclusive right of the government. It is also an obligation; the state has a duty to punish criminals.

It is entirely a matter of justice. In his section on The Will of God in the Summa Theologica, Aquinas wrote:The evil of natural defect, or of punishment, He does will, by willing the good to which such evils are attached. Thus in willing justice He wills punishment;
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