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Lettera Vescovi Penadimorte

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Is denying the death penalty’s permissibility heresy? Checking a LifeSiteNews report on the Holy See at the UNReporting the Holy See’s call at the UN for abolition, LifeSiteNews says the death penalty is “mandated by divine law” and that denying its permissibility is at least material heresy. The sources it cites speak of a lawful power, not a mandate, and the Church has not defined the point.Read the analysis