Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:36:17 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On Wed Dec 25 14:43:31 2024 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:52:54 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

I am unaware of the Catholic Church being against the death penalty...

 
From the US Conference of Catholic Bishops:
<https://www.usccb.org>
 
"The Church's Anti-Death Penalty Position"
<https://www.usccb.org/resources/churchs-anti-death-penalty-position>
 
Now you are aware.

No I am not since neither of your "references" work.

How convenient.  Go forth and fix it thyself:
"There are none so blind as those who will not see".  (Jonathan Swift)

Are you only blind to things you find disagreeable and contradict your
assertions?  Do you seriously expect anyone who reads your rubbish to
believe you? 

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is NOT the Catholic Church.

True, but they were nice enough to collect comments from various
bishops on the topic of the death penalty.  I suspect that if the
USCCB deviated from a stated policy of the Catholic Church, we would
be reading about it in the news.  Most of the writing are by various
bishops, but if you go down the list, you'll find comments by various
popes.  The first is probably the most interesting:

The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are
unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the
Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing
recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away,
even in the case of someone who has done great evil. . . . I renew the
appeal I made . . . for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is
both cruel and unnecessary.
- Pope John Paul II Papal Mass, St. Louis, Missouri, January 27, 1999

And even if the Pope has declared against the death penalty it belies centuries of the opposite from the same office.

The pope (in 1999) did exactly that (see above).  I agree, there would
be some discussion on the matter.  Maybe you could phone the pope and
ask him for a personal statement on the matter.  That allegedly worked
well when you phones various US political personalities.  Here's the
contact info:
  His Holiness Pope Francis
  Vatican City State, 00120
  phone: +390669881022
  fax: +390669885373


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