Did Pope Francis depart from Scripture and tradition in declaring the death penalty “inadmissible”? Or was his declaration rooted deeply in both?
Death Penalty
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Nebraska set for execution after about-face on death penalty
Gov. Pete Ricketts helped finance a ballot drive to reinstate capital punishment after lawmakers overrode his veto in 2015.
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Will priests bring Pope Francis’ death penalty message to people in the pews?
A former head of the E.P.A. warns that the pope’s message on the death penalty, like his message on the environment, may not make it to the pews.
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Tennessee set to kill first inmate in nearly a decade, bishops protest
The execution would occur a week after Pope Francis revealed new church teaching that deems the death penalty “inadmissible” under all circumstances.
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Sister Helen Prejean’s ‘happy day’ as Pope Francis revises teaching on the death penalty
“The huge thing,” she said, is the recognition by the church of “the inviolable dignity even of guilty people who have done terrible crimes.”
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Death penalty change shows ‘true dogmatic progress,’ says Archbishop Fisichella
Pope Francis’ revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert that capital punishment is morally inadmissible shows how the church can grow in its understanding of the implications of basic tenets of faith.
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U.S. Catholic bishops, advocacy groups welcome change on death penalty
Pope Francis has revised the church’s catechism to state that the death penalty is no longer admissible.
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Sister Helen Prejean on Pope Francis’ revision of the death penalty teaching | DEVELOPING STORY
Sister Helen Prejean, an anti-death penalty activist and author of the book Dead Man Walking, joins Kevin Clarke to discuss Pope Francis’ revision of the death penalty teaching.
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Pope Francis revises Catechism, teaches that death penalty is ‘inadmissible’
The revised teaching declares that the death penalty is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person, and that the church works “for its abolition worldwide.”
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Tennessee’s Catholic bishops urge governor to halt upcoming executions
Bishops J. Mark Spalding of Nashville, Richard F. Stika of Knoxville and Martin D. Holley of Memphis have written to Gov. Bill Haslam urging him to “use your authority as governor to put an end to the fast-track executions planned” in the state of Tennessee in the upcoming months.