The death penalty and the increasingly lengthy potatoes

Salvator Cinosio – Vatican City

About 500 years have passed since Christian education in the Trint Council, which according to judges when the death penalty is “the outlets of divine law”, even No hop does not disappoint Where Pope Francis asks about the abolition of the death penalty, “a measure contrary to Christian faith and destroys all hope for forgiveness and renewal.” In the middle, many social, political, mental and customary changes have somehow affected the teaching of the Church. The church, which was not always against the death penalty, as evidenced by the above -mentioned phrase from Christian education.

The entire title has been invested in recent centuries, and all the popes in the twentieth century condemned this practice, and are still very widespread in many countries in Africa and the Middle East, as well as in the United States (according to the last amnesty report, 2024 peaks recorded more than 1500 executions), where it re -executed every man, whatever the crime committed, in addition to the possibility of its capabilities.

Francisco “turning” from Francisco

Certainly, Francisco was a “turning point” in this sense when, through a Charity For 2018, he agreed to Amended to No. 2267 of Christian Education of the Catholic Church Regarding the death penalty: “In the light of the Bible, the Church is taught that the death penalty is unacceptable because it threatens the hateful and dignity of the person and its implementation by determining it to cancel it all over the world.” He established the Argentine Pope. He declared the same thought or its books at many times during its nets, through the sermons of the senses, stabbing, video messages, and phone calls to the heads of state, and last and not least, the bull that announces hope, as is the case during the jubilee in mercy in 2016, he asks about world leaders in the world of armed actions, and this is implementation. The petition was immediately accepted by some countries, headed by the United States with the outgoing president Joe Biden, who, after a phone conversation with the Pope, exceeded 37 death sentences for life imprisonment.

Change the perspective with John Paul II

However, the very clear position of Gorji Mario Bergolio is the result of a practical that preceded by former, with the support of modifications, clarifications, or, instead, “improvements” from the church teaching at this sensitive point, which was formulated for the first time in excessive excessive that the church is to cancel that it recognizes that it recognizes what is recognized. It was brought to the severity of the crime, without exclusion, in severe gravitational cases, the death penalty.

This was the first time that was outdated after less than five years. The official Latin text is actually in 1997, which John Paul II agreed permanently with the Apostolic Charter Weighs a lot : “The traditional education of the church is not excluded, it is assumed that the full result of identity and the responsibility of the perpetrator, the supplier of the death penalty, when this is the only practical way to defend human life effectively from the unfair aggressor.” Another clip says: “On the contrary, the fragmented media was sufficient to defend themselves from the aggressor and protect the safety of people,” Power will be limited to these means, because it responds better to the concrete conditions of the common commodity and agrees more, without adhering to dignity. Removing the possibility of salvation, the absolute need for deleting the perpetrator has become very rare now, it cannot be said practically that does not exist.

So we can attribute to the Pope and the first new “sensitivity” of the church on this topic. The Pope, who made “the right of every human being to life, from pregnancy to normal death” and is incapable. “

Think of the sixteenth Benedict

Benedict XVI was in the same direction when, in the summary of Christian education published in 2002, he repeated that “the penalty that is canceled must be provided to the severity of the crime” and that, in light of the fact that “absolute need” is “rare”, if it is not “completely not exist”, then he asked about the “means”. More satisfaction with a person’s dignity, “and above all,” is certainly not forbidden by the perpetrator of the possibility of salvation. “

Three different potatoes, the same thought.