The Narthex
Just Punishment and the Death Penalty
A hermeneutic of continuity or a hermeneutic of rupture
By Rob Agnelli (Archive) | November 15th 2018 6:51 PMIn a 2014 address to representatives of the International Association of Penal Law, Pope Francis announced his crusade for abolishing capital punishment world-wide. His march would continue until August of this year when he ordered a revision to Catechism paragraph 2267 deeming the death penalty “inadmissible.” While a change to…
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The Pope has power over only one global problem
By Richard DellOrfano | November 12th 2018 3:51 PMPope Francis is humanely concerned with over a dozen man-made problems that even school kids would wonder why the world doesn’t do something about: plastics littering the oceans, deadly drug gangs in Mexico, insane wars sparked by the pride of men, murderous Christian persecutions in Muslim nations, materialistic culture and…
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