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Pope changes teaching to oppose death penalty in all cases
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 05, 2018 10:12am |
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| Author | Harriet Sherwood |
| News Date | Thursday, August 2, 2018 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Pope Francis has said the death penalty is “inadmissible” and that the Catholic church would work for its abolition across the world.
Capital punishment was “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, Francis said in a change to Catholic teaching which leaves the Vatican at odds with countries, such as the US and China, which carry out executions.
The church previously viewed the death penalty, carried out by a legitimate authority after a fair trial, as an “appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good”, according to a Vatican statement.
But it said there was an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person was not lost even after “the commission of very serious crimes”. |
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