Sentences with phrase «position on capital punishment»
As a traditionally minded Anglo - Catholic, I must say that the Catholic Church's strange new position on capital punishment is one major reason why I would find accepting Roman Catholicism, at best, a compromise with a defective faith.
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He takes no position on capital punishment, abortion, or just war (the irresolvability of which he regards as indicative of our impoverished ethical conversation).
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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, in his famous speech on the «Consistent Ethic of Life» at Fordham in 1983, stated his concurrence with the «classical position» that the State has the right to inflict capital punishment.
The Pope's prophetic, even otherworldly positions on ecumenism, capital punishment, third «world debt relief, and a host of other issues of contemporary politics seem to be grounded in this insistence that our notions of justice be derived from the perfect justice and mercy of God.