Time to excommunicate Scalia.
Justice SCALIA: As for the very latest edition of the new Catholic Catechism, I assume that is just the phenomenon of the clerical bureaucracy saying, "Yes, boss." In any case, I have given this new position, if it is indeed that, thoughtful and respectful consideration, and have rejected it.
LAWTON: Scalia also rejected the pope's argument that opposition to the death penalty is part of a consistent respect for life that includes opposition to abortion and euthanasia. U.S. Church officials declined to respond to Scalia's remarks.
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"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 rare, if not practically non-existent." (NT: John Paul II, Evangelium vitae 56), now part of the official Catholic Catechism. |
