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On August 2, 2018, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Luis Cardinal Ladaria, announced that Pope Francis authorized a change in Art 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding the death penalty.

The new phrasing declares that the death penalty can no longer be applied in any case, anywhere in the world no matter the crime. Is this a legitimate “development of doctrine” as the Pope’s supporters affirm? Are Catholics now required to give the “religious submission of mind and will” to this new viewpoint of the Roman Pontiff, which, according to Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium 25, applies even to papal teaching that is not ex cathedra? Can the new Catechism be changed again?

Associate professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College, Dr. Ed Feser, believes it can and, should, be rescinded. The teaching as now phrased seems to openly contradict, not merely amend or develop, the 2000-year-old support for the death penalty in some cases. This is one not to miss.

Resources recommended in this episode:

*By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment  by Edward Feser and Joseph Bessette.
https://amzn.to/2xvwFVP

*2004 CDF Statement on Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
https://bit.ly/2IRzeoO

*Lumen Gentium 25 (“The Dogmatic Constitution On the Church,” Second Vatican Council).
https://bit.ly/2D07Dm7

*Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition by E. Christian Brugger.
https://amzn.to/2xJeRFM

*Dead Man Walking, BluRay, directed by Tim Robbins
https://amzn.to/2NxO0au

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