How the Catholic Church Helped Change the Conversation About Capital Punishment

How the Catholic Church Helped Change the Conversation About Capital Punishment

The Catholic church’s anti-death penalty teaching has helped provide both a moral foundation and political respectability for those working to end the death penalty. But that teaching is relatively new in the church, dating back to the past half-century. For most of its history, the Catholic Church did not oppose the death penalty. The post How the Catholic Church Helped Change the Conversation About Capital Punishment appeared first on FlaglerL…