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November 2019

November 08, 2019

I’ll give this to Libertarians…

Unlike an awful lot of "prolife" Catholics and other conservative white Christians, they are on...

November 07, 2019

More on the Cognitive Dissonance of Death Penalty Defenders

As we saw yesterday, people who chatter about the Magisterial development regarding the death penalty...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

Texas Recently Murdered a Man for a Crime Experts Say He Did Not Commit

Larry Swearingen was put to death for a murder and a rape that the science...

September 16, 2019

Reader DoughnutGuy Gets It

He writes: It strikes me as rather odd that so many Catholics take the position...

September 10, 2019

Cdl. Burke Dissents from the Church’s Teaching

Mike Lewis, over at Where Peter Is, writes: Recent remarks by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke,...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

Catholics Should not Care about Left or Right When It Comes to the Death Penalty

Here is a note from Jon Crane of Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, doing...

July 19, 2019

Where Peter Is on the Death Penalty

They write: In June 17th, Cardinal Dolan posted the following on Twitter: Link: This...

June 2019

June 11, 2019

Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty

I get mysteriously signed up for a lot of spam mail from various orgs who...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

Proud of my State!

The Washington State Supreme Court just ruled the death penalty unconstitutional, thereby abolishing the death...

September 2018

September 15, 2018

Today’s Orwellian Headline

U.S. inmate executed using fentanyl for 1st time There appeared to be no complications from...

August 2018

August 08, 2018

The Death Penalty Kerfuffle

So there has been a lot of hysteria about the development of the Church's teaching...

August 06, 2018

Here’s a hopeful sign!

A guy named Jon Crane writes: I handle PR for Conservatives Concerned About the Death...

August 02, 2018

Here is the new language of the Catechism on the death penalty

2267. Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair...

August 02, 2018

The Pope has just declared the death penalty inadmissible in all cases

This will be a challenge to Communists, Islamic despots, and white conservative "prolife" American Catholics...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

Blaming abortion supporters for the death penalty

When last we looked in on the super-duper "prolife" Catholic governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts,...

January 2018

January 19, 2018

The Bishop of Little Rock refuses to get played for a sucker…

...by the Christianist "prolife" movement use of the unborn as human shields for making war...

December 2017

December 09, 2017

Bravo to Dave Armstrong!

...for coming completely on board with the Church's position on the death penalty. He now...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

David Bentley Hart Takes Apart By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed

He does an extremely thorough job and shows his work. Here's some samples, but read...

October 2017

October 21, 2017

The Sheer Orwellianism of Crisis

For months I've listened to this sleight of hand from the "prolife" Right: Black people...

October 18, 2017

A Word About the Term ‘Intrinsically Immoral’

I mentioned the term "intrinsically immoral" in my discussions of the death penalty. Lots of people...

October 16, 2017

Pope Initiates Schism with American Conservative Catholic Death Penalty Fans

Even the Orthodox are all like, "Get serious, you guys!" to American conservative Catholics pretending...

October 13, 2017

The Church is not Going to Reverse its Development of Doctrine on the Death Penalty

As much as kill crazy American Conservative Catholics and their close intellectual allies, the Communists...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

Trust the Church’s Prudence over Man’s

Particularly when the men in question have been so wrong about so much so many...

June 14, 2017

Part 8 of my series on the Death Penalty

...over at the Catholic Weekly Wherein we learn that Prudential Judgment does not mean "Feel...

June 07, 2017

What about retributive justice?

The latest in my series on the death penalty for Catholic Weekly.

May 2017

May 30, 2017

The Unquiet Conscience of Christian Civilization

Part 6 of my series on the Death Penalty over at The Catholic Weekly. But...

May 24, 2017

Blunting Caesar’s Sword

A brief look at the history of the Church's conflicted relationship with Caesar's power to...

May 16, 2017

Mercy for Murderers in Scripture

Part 4 of my series on the death penalty in the Catholic Weekly. Some varieties...

May 15, 2017

A reader writes me about the death penalty

Sez he: Would it be a sin if I sat on a jury and voted...

May 11, 2017

I hate being right all the time

Pope Francis just upped the ante on the "debate" (so-called) over the death penalty. I...

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