Did Pope Francis depart from Scripture and tradition in declaring the death penalty “inadmissible”? Or was his declaration rooted deeply in both?
Tobias Winright
Tobias Winright is a professor of moral theology at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland, and an associate member of Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University. Among his books are Serve and Protect: Selected Essays on Just Policing (2020) and the T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics (2021).
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An open letter to ICE from a former law enforcement officer
I humbly exhort you to listen to and follow your conscience during these stormy times.
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What St. John XXIII has to say about gun rights
In the wake of repeated mass shootings, most recently at a school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, many of us are asking what resources are available to educators to address questions of gun violence and gun control. In my experience teaching social ethics, I have found that Pope John XXIII’s social encyclical “Pacem in […]