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"While the Church
exhorts civil authorities . . . to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing
punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible . . . to have recourse to
capital punishment." - Pope Benedict XVI
“My child and My children, children, I wish that you make it known to your countrymen in the United States, and Canada, and all the nations of the world, that We cannot tolerate the murders of the unborn. This is a sacrilege of the most foulest manner in the eyes of the Eternal Father, and shall be punishable by death." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 17, 1986
In an attempt to deflect attention away from themselves, some pro-abortion Catholics are now claiming that it is hypocritical to oppose abortion and at the same time support the death penalty; in other words, that abortion is morally equivalent to the death penalty. Not so. Directly-willed abortion is intrinsically evil (always and everywhere a grave moral evil), capital punishment is not. In fact, the Catholic Church officially teaches that the State has the right to invoke the death penalty against criminals to vindicate justice and to preserve the common good. Furthermore, a Catholic may not say that capital punishment is never justified or intrinsically evil without opposing the teaching of the Catholic Church. The following are excerpts from an article by Latin Mass magazine, as well as quotes from Barbara Kralis and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia:
Pope Benedict XVI
on capital punishment"While the Church exhorts civil authorities . . . to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible . . . to have recourse to capital punishment."
It must be stated from the outset that the death penalty has not been outlawed by the Catholic Church. According to an article in Latin Mass magazine:
"The Church's traditional position is that society has the authority to inflict punishments upon its members, and even to deprive a criminal of his life: (1) to vindicate the moral order; (2) to defend itself; (3) to deter other would-be-offenders and (4) to reform the criminal. Given these purposes, an execution may take place if the following conditions are met: (a) the guilt of the prisoner is certain; (b) the crime is of major gravity; (c) the penalty is to be inflicted, after due process, by State authority, not by private individuals or by lynching and (d) the prisoner is given the opportunity to make his peace with God. Saint Thomas Aquinas says, 'It is lawful to kill a malefactor, insofar as it is ordered to the welfare of the entire community.'
"According to moralist Dominic Prummer, St. Thomas always proffers the same reason for the lawfulness of the death penalty, viz., the necessity of the common good. But is not this contrary to the rights of life? Pope Pius XII answered this objection: 'Even in the question of the execution of a man condemned to death, the State does not dispose of the individual's right to life. It then falls to the public authority to deprive the condemned man of the good of life in expiation of his fault after he, by his crime, has already deprived himself of his right to life.'..."So, may a Catholic believe in capital punishment? Yes. May a Catholic be opposed to capital punishment? Yes--but he may not say that it is a violation of the fifth commandment. Nor may he say that it is intrinsically evil. To say that it contravenes the fifth commandment was an error of the Waldensians--which they were required to renounce in their profession of faith made upon returning to the Church. To say that it is wrong per se or never justified is contrary to the traditional teaching of the Church upheld in the Latin Catechism.
Pope Pius XII
on the Church's teaching regarding punishment of criminals"It remains to say a word about the ultimate meaning of punishment. Most modern theories of penal law explain punishment and justify it in the last analysis as a protective measure, that is, a defense of the community against criminal undertakings; and, at the same time, as an effort to lead the culprit back to observance of the law. In these theories, punishment may indeed include sanctions in the form of a reduction of certain advantages guaranteed by the law, in order to teach the culprit to live honestly; but these theories fail to consider expiation of the crime committed ... as the most important function of punishment." - Discourse of October 3, 1953
"Up to a certain point, it may be true that imprisonment and isolation, when properly applied, constitute the penalty most likely to effect a return of the wrongdoer to right order and life in the community. But it does not follow from this that imprisonment is the only just and effective punishment. Our remarks on international penal law on October 3, 1953, referring to the theory of retribution apply here. Many jurists, thought not all, reject the concept of vindictive punishment, even when it is to be accompanied by medicinal penalties. In our remarks, we declared that it would be incorrect to reject completely, and as a matter of principle, the function of vindictive punishment. While man is on earth, such punishment both can and should help towards his eternal salvation, provided he himself raises no obstacle to its salutary efficacy. The effectiveness of vindictive penalties is in no way opposed to the function of punishment, which is the re-establishment and restoration of the order of justice which has been disrupted, a function which we have already indicated as essential to all punishment." - Discourse of December 5, 1954
The death penalty in Scripture
"The idea that no human community could have power to inflict the death penalty flies in the face of Sacred Scripture. At God's command, any murderer among the Chosen People was to be put to death (Ex. 21:12). Continuing in chapters 21-22 of the same book, the Lord God commands the penalty of death for whoever is guilty of striking or cursing father or mother, negligently letting his ferocious ox kill someone, bestiality, sorcery, or offering sacrifice to a false god. In Leviticus 20:27 God commands, 'A man or women who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death.' In Deuteronomy 3:5 He declares that a false prophet is also to be put to death. We learn in Deuteronomy 17:2-6 that the same penalty applies for any act of idolatry. Death is prescribed in Leviticus 18:29 for whoever performs any of the abominations performed by the Canaanites. In 1 Samuel (Douay = 1 Kings) 6:19, God executes the death penalty Himself, killing seventy men in one blow for peeking into the Ark of the Covenant.
Some will say the God of the Old Testament is harsh, and not the loving God of the New. But it is the ancient heresy of Marcion to suggest that the God of the Old Testament is not that of the New. In Acts 5, St. Peter announced to Ananias and Sapphira that God would strike them dead for lying to the Holy Spirit, and that's just what happened." (Latin Mass magazine, Spring 1998, pp. 43-45)********
On May 24, 2004, Barbara Kralis wrote:
"Why not deny Communion to politicians and laity who support the death penalty and the Iraq war?"
Answer: The Church has never taught, and does not teach now, that the death penalty and war are evil in all instances. But, the Church has always clearly condemned abortion, sodomy, euthanasia, cloning, and embryonic stem cell research in all instances.
The Church teaches that it is the right and responsibility of the legitimate temporal authority to defend and preserve the common good and citizens against the aggressor, even if it has to resort to the death penalty if no other means of defense is sufficient. (Pope John Paul II, 'Evangelium vitae,' §27, 56; The Catholic Dossier, 9/98, "Opposition to the Death Penalty," Dr. Ralph McInerny)********
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told Georgetown University students in February 2002 that "no authority that I know of denies the 2,000-year-old tradition of the Church approving capital punishment." In Chicago on January 25, 2002, Scalia said, "In my view, the choice for a judge who believes the death penalty is immoral is resignation rather than simply ignoring duly enacted constitutional laws and sabotaging the death penalty."
In a panel discussion on January 25, 2002 entitled, "A call for reckoning: religion and the death penalty," Justice Scalia stated:Few doubted the morality of death penalty in the age that believed in the divine right of kings, or even in earlier times, St. Paul had this to say. I'm quoting from the same passage from Romans, but you should hear the whole thing. I'm using, as you would expect, the King James version. (Laughter.) "Let every soul," he says, "be subject unto the higher powers, for there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God..."--You know, I never knew where that phrase came from. I'm sure it's from that passage in the King James--"the powers that be--"... Whosoever, therefore, resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation, for rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of that power? Do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain, for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil. Wherefore, ye must needs be subject not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake."
This is not the Old Testament, I emphasize, but St. Paul. One can understand his words as referring only to lawfully constituted authority or even only to lawfully constituted authority that justly rules, but the core of his message is that government, however you want to limit that concept, derives its moral authority from God. It is the minister of God with powers to revenge, to execute wrath, including even wrath by the sword, which is unmistakably a reference to the death penalty.He also emphasized that "Indeed, it seems to me that the more Christian a country is, the less likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral."
In response to a question, Justice Scalia stated: "I think the question, if I got it correctly, was do I think the death penalty is immoral because it will--I have to say it--it will inevitably lead at some point to the condemnation of someone who is innocent. Well, of course it will. I mean, you cannot have any system of human justice that is going to be perfect. And if the death penalty is immoral for that reason, so is life in prison. You think you're not going to have innocent people put in prison for life? It's one of the risks of living in an organized human society. And it's one that we all say, it's better than the alternative, which is to be subjected to constant crime. I don't think that the system becomes immoral because it cannot be perfect."
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Links...
A Christian response to death penalty issues, January 18, 2007
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/creech/070118Death penalty opponents wrong again, WorldNetDaily, January 17, 2007
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53798The purpose of punishment, St. Joseph Foundation
http://www.st-joseph-foundation.org/newsletter/lead.php?document=2003/21-4A conservative case for the death penalty, Newsmax, March 18, 2005
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/17/143817.shtmlOpposition to the death penalty, Dr. Ralph McInerny
http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Dossier/9-10-98/editorial.htmlA call for reckoning: Religion and death penalty, comments by Justice Antonin Scalia
http://pewforum.org/deathpenalty/resources/transcript3.php3Justice Scalia questions Catholic platform against the death penalty, BeliefNet, February 5, 2002
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/99/story_9960_1.html
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