General
The death penalty debate and the Church’s magisterium
I regard the liceity of the death penalty as having been established with infallible certitude by the Church’s ordinary magisterium. […]
death penalty
Analysis
How and why the death penalty deters murder in contemporary America
Too many churchmen simply ignore the evidence that the death penalty saves lives and promotes public order. Catholic public officials charged with the care of the […]
Analysis
On capital punishment, even the pope’s defenders are confused
There simply is no way to make an absolute condemnation of capital punishment consistent with past scriptural and papal teaching. The only way out of […]
Analysis
Pope Francis, the Lérinian legacy of Vatican II, and capital punishment
I’m sure there are other reasons, but at least for these three reasons I think that Pope Francis cannot provide a Lérinian justification of the […]
Analysis
Why the Death Penalty is Still Necessary
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part article on Catholicism and the death penalty originally published in June 2016. Part 1 was titled “Why the Church Cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment”. As […]
The Dispatch
Revisiting the horrors of the infamous Moors Murders
May has been a busy month in Britain for journalists. With a snap election around the corner, the news has been dominated by election manifestos, polling predictions and the jostling of the major parties for […]