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- thejimmyo, on 06/16/2008, -3/+2The pope said that the Iraq war has "no moral justification," yet McCain supports it. The Catholic church is officially opposed to the death penalty, yet McCain supports it. It seems like he also has a few positions that aren't quite in line, himself.
- JeffreyLloyd, on 06/16/2008, -2/+3Catholic's are free to disagree with the pope on both those topics.
CCC - 2267
Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.
If, however, non-lethal means are sufficient to defend and protect people's safety from the aggressor, authority will limit itself to such means, as these are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good and more in conformity with the dignity of the human person.
Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm—without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself—the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity "are very rare, if not practically non-existent."
And: http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/just_war.htm
- JeffreyLloyd, on 06/16/2008, -2/+3Catholic's are free to disagree with the pope on both those topics.
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