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Slack.com slash DHQ. So you probably heard that Pope Francis reversed Catholic church

teaching on the death penalty. And now normally when you hear things like this, you hear

that the Pope reversed church teaching on this or that subject. Usually it's untrue. Usually

the media is sensationalizing some personal opinion that Pope Francis expressed on a plane

when he was talking to journalists or something like that. But in this case, this time it

is true. Or it's true anyway that the Pope is trying to officially reverse a teaching

of the church that has been in place for 2000 years. And that is very bad and wrong.

And I would even say catastrophically wrong. I want to explain why. There are two aspects

to this conversation. One is about what Francis is trying to do and whether he can do it

right. The other aspect is just the death penalty itself and how Christians are really

supposed to view the issue. So I want to tackle both of these things. I want to spend more

time on the second point, but let's start with the first. So on the first point, we

should recall that the church has taught for 2000 years. There's always taught. And men

like Aquinas and Augustine have affirmed this. It's always been taught that the death penalty

is in principle permissible, in principle, the state has the authority from God to put criminals

to death. That is what has always been taught. Even in modern times when when, uh,

folks like Pope John Paul II have had personal objections to the death penalty, still this

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