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August 2, 2018

Pope Francis changes catechism to say death penalty is 'inadmissible'

Pope Francis addresses participants at an encounter marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2017. The death penalty is "contrary to the Gospel," the Pope said in his speech.
VATICAN – Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person" and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide.
Published in International