Sadly (and at the risk of having this post deleted and / or being suspended again), this current pontificate often blames society rather than the individual. That’s why I believe Pope Francis “edited” the Catechism on the death penalty; it’s because he often sees sin as a result of mistreatment in society. Thus, the murderer on death row must have killed someone not because of personal inclination to sin, but because his socio-economic status in life or mistreatment by society led them to no other choice but to become a hardened murderer. Therefore, to Pope Francis, the very society that encouraged the person to murder in the first place has no right to execute them. In many ways, this current pontificate considers the greatest sin to be a “rigid” Catholic who is not open to the “surprises” (i.e., modernist / progressive theological changes) of the “holy spirit.” (using small letters because this spirit is obviously not part of the Trinity, because the Vatican nowadays seems to think that the Holy Spirit, Who is God, somehow operates in opposition to the Father and Son).
I wasn’t able to be Anglican until 1991. I definitely couldn’t have been one nearly 2000 years ago. Had I been, I’d be dead now.
I would loosely identify as evangelical Anglican. Though my local church is pretty broad. As a RC I would consider myself Charismatic, but there are so few churches in Southern Ontario that embrace this form of worship.
All Western Christian countries have abolished the death penalty apart from the US (and tiny Belarus). It is recognised that it no longer represents true justice but has been subsumed into the modern culture of death which esteems a ‘right to kill’. All the popes for the last 50 years have been working towards abolition of the death penalty world wide because it no longer reflects Christian justice but feeds the beastly blood lust of power driven factions.redbetta:
Sadly (and at the risk of having this post deleted and / or being suspended again), this current pontificate often blames society rather than the individual. That’s why I believe Pope Francis “edited” the Catechism on the death penalty; it’s because he often sees sin as a result of mistreatment in society. Thus, the murderer on death row must have killed someone not because of personal inclination to sin, but because his socio-economic status in life or mistreatment by society led them to no other choice but to become a hardened murderer. Therefore, to Pope Francis, the very society that encouraged the person to murder in the first place has no right to execute them. In many ways, this current pontificate considers the greatest sin to be a “rigid” Catholic who is not open to the “surprises” (i.e., modernist / progressive theological changes) of the “holy spirit.” (using small letters because this spirit is obviously not part of the Trinity, because the Vatican nowadays seems to think that the Holy Spirit, Who is God, somehow operates in opposition to the Father and Son).
You are brilliant. The ACC is a liberal church in a Liberal country.
