It took me by surprise when I read that there are going to be changes to the Catholic Catechism in regards to our teaching on the death penalty. I remembered back to 1999 as I watched on the news back then of a person who was being murdered for a crime was publicly broadcast. Up until that point in my life, I had never witness someone being condemned so openly and I was upset at our world for not promoting the culture of life, that the Catholic Church was and still is fighting for. Back to now and our present world of hyper connectivity and open discussion of almost anything, the culture of death is everywhere. It finally took three popes to help change things in my church.
I am so happy that the Catholic Church is fighting for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. Unlike the evangelical church, the Catholic Church is changing it's dogma not necessarily to keep up with the times but to bring more life into our already death saturated culture. Never before has there been a culture so obsessed with the culture of death, and everywhere you look people are looking to our leaders to lessen the pain and the stress of a world gone mad. It is about time that the Church took a stance against the killing and the murder by bringing into our teachings that anyone can be forgiven and reconciled to God.
Human dignity was one of the reasons why this new teaching about the death penalty is happening, and that no sinner is too far away from being rescued by the love and the forgiveness and the grace of God. Under the leadership of the Church's recent popes, we have seen the church stress over and over again that Christ's church should give life. The term the 'culture of death' was made popular by saint Pope John Paul II, and it made the Church aware that if things were to continue the way they were then entire populations would be killed off (in my opinion) and you see this happening in war torn countries. But the culture of death affects our lives still in the twenty first century, where human dignity is not being taken seriously anymore. I applaud Pope Francis and the Church for taking a stance for life, even the lives of those who have committed serious crimes. This is Mike.
I am so happy that the Catholic Church is fighting for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. Unlike the evangelical church, the Catholic Church is changing it's dogma not necessarily to keep up with the times but to bring more life into our already death saturated culture. Never before has there been a culture so obsessed with the culture of death, and everywhere you look people are looking to our leaders to lessen the pain and the stress of a world gone mad. It is about time that the Church took a stance against the killing and the murder by bringing into our teachings that anyone can be forgiven and reconciled to God.
Human dignity was one of the reasons why this new teaching about the death penalty is happening, and that no sinner is too far away from being rescued by the love and the forgiveness and the grace of God. Under the leadership of the Church's recent popes, we have seen the church stress over and over again that Christ's church should give life. The term the 'culture of death' was made popular by saint Pope John Paul II, and it made the Church aware that if things were to continue the way they were then entire populations would be killed off (in my opinion) and you see this happening in war torn countries. But the culture of death affects our lives still in the twenty first century, where human dignity is not being taken seriously anymore. I applaud Pope Francis and the Church for taking a stance for life, even the lives of those who have committed serious crimes. This is Mike.
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