Analyses citing it
- Leo XIV’s death-penalty post repeats the Catechism almost word for wordOn the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Leo XIV wrote that capital punishment is “inadmissible” and that justice can be served without it. Vatican News reports the post accurately, and its wording follows the 2018 text of the Catechism closely.Read the analysis
- 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