Imagine if predator clergy had to deal with the ministrations of this gentleman and his trusty axe. Too many members of the clergy have a conflict of interest when they seek to lessen criminal penalties. Kindness to the cruel is often cruelty to the kind.
In the very least they should be life sentence in Vatican prison. But it seems all like a prerequisite for a red hat or at least the covering and handling of them do. I have no guilt when I pass on giving in some collections.
Didn’t those popes know that the death penalty was inadmissible?
The central tenant of the objection to the death penalty, the competency of the penal system to control criminals, is under full assault by left-wing DAs and other soft on crime governmental officials. It is getting to be a revolving door. One could make the argument that in some places the judicial and penal systems are undergoing a process of decay.
Strange, but I don’t recall Christ ever once criticizing the very act of crucifixion itself.
39 Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us.”
Luke 23: 39-43
I have always found it odd that if a Catholic Chaplain in the military carried on an affair with someone’s spouse, the Uniform Code of Military Justice would issue a harsher punishment than Canon Law. The UCMJ maintains good order and discipline when lives are on the line. Should not Canon Law do the same for souls facing eternal damnation?