Death Penalty Development: A Conditional Advance of Justice
In a doctrinal clarification apropos for the feast day of Alphonsus Liguori, patron of moral...
Read Moreby Book Reviews | Aug 3, 2018 | Current Events | 7 |
In a doctrinal clarification apropos for the feast day of Alphonsus Liguori, patron of moral...
Read Moreby David Cloutier | Aug 2, 2018 | Current Events | 0 |
The announcement this morning that the Catechism’s teaching on the death penalty is changing...
Read Moreby Matthew Shadle | Nov 28, 2017 | Current Events | 5 |
In yesterday’s post I considered two arguments for how the Catholic Church could introduce an...
Read Moreby Matthew Shadle | Nov 27, 2017 | Current Events | 0 |
In an October address to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the...
Read Moreby Tobias Winright | Jan 30, 2017 | Current Events | 0 |
Dear Governor Greitens: As a Catholic moral theologian (and a former corrections officer and reserve police officer), I urge you to stay Mark Christeson’s execution, scheduled for Tuesday, January 31st. In my past...
Read Moreby Matthew Shadle | Apr 3, 2015 | Current Events | 3 |
Early last month, four Catholic journals—America, the National Catholic Reporter, the National...
Read Moreby Tobias Winright | Mar 16, 2015 | Bioethics, Life and Death, Current Events | 0 |
This past week’s issue of the St. Louis Review, the newspaper for the Archdiocese of St....
Read Moreby David Cloutier | Mar 6, 2015 | Current Events | 2 |
On Thursday, four diverse Catholic publications – America, National Catholic Reporter,...
Read Moreby Tobias Winright | Mar 1, 2015 | Bioethics, Life and Death, Current Events | 2 |
Dear Governor Deal (and Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles)*: As a Catholic moral theologian (and a former corrections officer and reserve police officer), I wish to go on record in requesting that you do not execute...
Read Moreby Tobias Winright | Dec 10, 2012 | Current Events | 3 |
The Colosseum in Rome was lit up on November 29, 2012 in honor of Connecticut’s repeal of the death penalty back in April. Former California death row inmate Shujaa Graham, who was a featured speaker at the annual conference of...
Read Moreby Tobias Winright | May 9, 2012 | Current Events | 5 |
In an editorial, “Sometimes the death penalty is warranted,” in the Washington Post, Charles Lane observes that Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway on July 22, 2011, declared that the maximum possible...
Read Moreby Tobias Winright | Dec 2, 2011 | Current Events | 0 |
On November 30th, during an address to members of the Catholic Sant’Egidio Community, Pope Benedict XVI offered some words concerning opposition to the death penalty. Here is the full text: Dear Brothers and Sisters, In...
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