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On capital punishment, even the pope’s defenders are confused

October 21, 2017 Dr. Edward Feser 59

There simply is no way to make an absolute condemnation of capital punishment consistent with past scriptural and papal teaching. The only way out of […]

Why the Death Penalty is Still Necessary

July 18, 2017 Joseph M. Bessette, Dr. Edward Feser 3

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part article on Catholicism and the death penalty originally published in June 2016. Part 1 was titled “Why the Church Cannot Reverse Past Teaching on Capital Punishment”. As […]