Cardinal Dulles’ “Dubia”

“The death penalty is inadmissible” invites the questions, By whom? On whose will? The language smacks of raw judicial power, portending ominously that the Catechism will conform to the will of successive popes. Much as the U.S. Supreme Court has been politicized, the category of the inadmissible risks politicizing the papacy.

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