Brothers without Borders: Pope Francis's Quasi- ... Catholic World Report https://www.catholicworldreport.com › 2020/10/10 › bro... A cross between an encyclical and a humanitarian manifesto ... ... As for the death penalty, Pope Francis believes that those who advocate it are simply succumbing to vengeance and thus deny the dignity of the one to be punished by execution, even for a truly heinous crime. But Kant believed that such a punishment reflected deep respect for the moral agency and responsibility of a murderer, for example. And St. Paul, St. Thomas, and almost every previous pope denied that capital punishment is always and everywhere “inadmissible” (#263). Pope Francis gives the game away when he comes out against life imprisonment which he calls “a secret death penalty” (#268). With all due respect to the Holy Father, he has confused our religion with what C.S. Lewis called in God in the Dock “the humanitarian theory of punishment.” C. S. Lewis says ve...
Flashback: "This is One of the Finest and most Balanced Overviews of the Controversy concerning Benedict XVI's Resignation & whether Francis Can or Cannot be with Certitude Determined to not be Pope "
Mr. Martinez, this is one of the finest and most balanced overviews of the controversy concerning Benedict xvi's resignation and whether Francis can or cannot be with certitude determined to not be pope that I have read. Scholars have traced the famous adage 'where Peter is, there is the Church' to St. Ambrose in his Commentary on the Psalms. The rest of the phrase adds 'where there is the Church, there is not death but Eternal Life.'["Ubi ergo Petrus, ibi Ecclesia; ubi Ecclesia, ibi nulla mors sed vita aeterna." In Psalmum XL Enarratio, PL XIV, 1134.] Given the foibles of so many popes, and given the confusion of absolute administrative power with Peter's authority to confirm truth, I wonder if Divine Providence is not purging us of simplistically using the first part of this phrase. Rather, we should say first of all, is what this pope or hierarch espousing truly Eternal Life or is it spiritual death? And if it is the latter, does this imply that he ...