Most of the prisoners who were executed in the United States over the last year were allowed to have a clergy member of their choice present in the execution chamber.
Bishop Robert Barron, who spearheaded the U.S. bishops' efforts to implement the Pope's changes to the catechism on the death penalty, also spoke at today's National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
The crisis of morals has reached such a grave point that our bishops are no longer even capable of distinguishing between different kinds of dignity that people have.
The faithful cardinal emphasized that references to a new Pope Francis magisterium are 'simply preposterous — this is not the magisterium! Priests and the lay faithful must understand this.'