Pope’s new teaching against death penalty is ‘break’ with Catholic teaching: EWTN panel
Canonist Father Gerald Murray called the Pope’s new teaching 'very troubling' because it went against Church doctrine.
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Articles tagged Catechism Of The Catholic Church
LGBT ‘Catholic’ groups: If Pope can reverse Church teaching on death penalty, why not homosexuality?
Homosexual activists now believe the Church can change her teaching on anything, including sexual morals.
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Not even the Borgia Popes tried to ‘revise’ Church teaching
Altering Church teaching by papal fiat confirms the politicization of doctrine
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Whoever says death penalty is evil in itself ‘falls into heresy’: Church historian
Pope Francis’ new rescript expresses the theological evolutionism that Saint Pius X condemned.
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Pro-abortion Andrew Cuomo pushes bill to end death penalty in ‘solidarity’ with Pope Francis
Many Catholics have expressed alarm for what they call a doctrinal error that distorts Catholic teaching.
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Pope’s change to Catechism is not just a prudential judgment, but a rejection of dogma
There is no need to beat around the bush: this new teaching is contrary to what the Church has always taught.
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‘Doctrinal error’: Catholics react to Pope Francis’ new teaching against death penalty
Numerous Catholic theologians, historians, and philosophers who are faithful to perennial Catholic doctrine have reacted to the Pope's new teaching with alarm.
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Pope’s change to Catechism on death penalty is distressingly ambiguous
The Pope hasn't necessarily overthrown definitive teaching, but he's bound to be taken as doing so.
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Pope’s change to Catechism contradicts natural law and the deposit of Faith
This is Pope Francis's boldest and most reckless move to date.
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Pope Francis changes Catechism to declare death penalty ‘inadmissible’
The pope formally declared today that the death is 'an attack on the ... dignity of the person.'
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