U.S. bishops say ‘enough’ on federal executions

[EssentialBeing]

If we go back in history, humanity as well as the Church have corrected many wrongs. How does the Church explain the era of Inquisitions? I am not willing to get into it here but I can suggest, that we must be brave enough to accept the errors of the past.

 

[Ender]

We accepted Pope John Pauls before 2018 and Francis’ after 2018 understanding them as a development just as has happened through 2000 years of the living Church.

The problem with calling this a development is that one position repudiates the other. That is not actually considered legitimate development which: “…to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started.” (Newman)

Inadmissible means that today considering our increased awareness and understanding about human dignity it’s not admissible to use death as a sentence even though in the past it could be used.

So it was OK to violate human dignity in the past because we didn’t really understand it? For all the talk about the Spirit guiding the church now in this latest change no one has explained why it waited two millennia to clear things up. You’d have thought that a clear understanding of man’s dignity would be more important.

It isn’t complicated unless you want to make it complicated for some reason.

The bishops called it ambiguous. Are they wrong too?

I can suggest, that we must be brave enough to accept the errors of the past.

Is it your position then that the church taught error for 2000 years?

 

[EssentialBeing]

Is it your position then that the church taught error for 2000 years?

No not at all, but I do atribute positive change & the correction of errors to be in line with the growth or evolution of human knowledge, we simply didn’t know any better back then