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What true development in moral theology looks like

August 25, 2022 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 22

Faith does not depend upon our own reasonings and feelings. It responds to the revelation of God, which exceeds all of our own capacities. On our own, we could not know God and could have […]

General

On human dignity and the death penalty

August 16, 2018 James V. Schall, S.J. 2

Whether human dignity is upheld if we allow no executions remains an open question. As Plato intimated, a case for the execution of certain criminals […]

General

Development, not deviation: Evaluating Francis’ modification on the death penalty

August 16, 2018 Thomas J. Nash 3

We can reaffirm that state executions are not intrinsically evil, even while we join Pope Francis in working toward the abolition of their social application. […]

General

Capital punishment: Intrinsically evil or morally permissible?

August 16, 2018 Joseph G. Trabbic 8

What we appear to have on our hands is a case of interpretive undecidability. […]

General

Some questions for defenders of capital punishment

August 16, 2018 Robert G. Kennedy 8

The historical record is less consistent than many suppose and it does not, in fact, support the claim that the Church has committed itself irreformably […]

General

Catechism changes demand the impossible

August 16, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 3

The new text on capital punishment seems to require Catholics to substitute this Pope’s judgment on this subject for their own. […]

Features

Douthat-Faggioli debate highlights two key, contested issues of Francis’ pontificate

February 6, 2018 Eduardo Echeverria 8

Two major issues—the meaning and significance of Vatican II and the doctrinal implications of AL’s moral logic of pastoral reasoning—will continue to present the Church […]

Analysis

Pope Francis, the Lérinian legacy of Vatican II, and capital punishment

October 15, 2017 Eduardo Echeverria 63

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 […]

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