Thursday, August 09, 2018

Problematic indeed …

 The new Catechism text on the death penalty will damage the Church | CatholicHerald.co.uk. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… churchmen have no special expertise on these matters. And of course, the essential point is not about these empirical issues, but about the authority of the Church’s perennial teaching – which raises a simple question. How can anyone justify a radical revision to over two millennia of scriptural and papal teaching on the basis of dubious amateur social science?

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