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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 […]

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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. […]

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Capital punishment: Intrinsically evil or morally permissible?

August 16, 2018 Joseph G. Trabbic 3

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

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Some questions for defenders of capital punishment

August 16, 2018 Robert G. Kennedy 7

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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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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