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,Jan 10, 2024
Catholic Organizers See “Renewed Momentum” for Death Penalty Abolition from Pope Francis’ Teachings
In 2018, Pope Francis
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,Oct 06, 2020
New Papal Encyclical Tells Catholics There is ‘No Stepping Back’ From Opposition to Death Penalty
A new papal encyclical letter tells Catholics around the world that “[t]here can be no stepping back” from the Church’s formal opposition to the death penalty. Pope Francis’ October 3, 2020 encyclical, entitled
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,Sep 08, 2022
News Brief: Pope Francis Calls for Prayer to Abolish the Death Penalty
Pope Francis has issued a renewed call to “all people of good will to mobilize for the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world,” devoting the September 2022 worldwide prayer intention of his papacy to ending capital pu…
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,Oct 26, 2020
Orthodox Church Patriarch Calls Death Penalty Incompatible with Christian Beliefs
The leader of the world’s second largest Christian denomination has joined with the Roman Catholic Church in declaring the death penalty fundamentally incompatible with Christian teachings. In an interview with Vatican News on October 20,…
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,Aug 02, 2018
The 2018 Revised Catholic Catechism
On August 2, 2018, the Vatican announced that it had