National Catholic Register13d
25 Years Ago, John Paul II Led Us Across the Threshold of Hope
COMMENTARY: The quiet of Christmas Eve and the revelry of New Year’s marked a great moment of history with Pope St. John Paul ...
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The Pope's Statement
While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae ...
National Catholic Register14d
2 Great Icons for the Great Jubilee: St. John Paul II and Blessed Stefan Wyszyński
As the Jubilee of 2025 begins, the legacy of two great millennial Churchmen has prepared the Church for the “Greater Jubilee ...
Angelus7dOpinion
Trouble with Tehran: The echoes of Jimmy Carter in modern Vatican diplomacy
Jimmy Carter is the only president in American history whose time in office overlapped with three popes: Paul VI, John Paul I ...
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Pope Francis declares death penalty inadmissible in all cases
The text of the catechism was first set by Pope John Paul II in October 1992, and earlier stated that the death penalty was "an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an ...
Georgia Bulletin16d
Archbishop Hartmayer’s statement on the death of President Jimmy Carter
Archbishop Hartmayer of Atlanta expresses prayers and condolences to the family of President Jimmy Carter upon his Dec. 29 ...
The American Spectator24d
The Church Needs to Regress on the Death Penalty
In 1992, Pope St. John Paul II revised the Catechism of the Catholic Church and, regarding the death penalty, wrote: If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor ...